Kiro Manoyan: Turkey has neither wish nor will to regulate relations

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS:

No essential changes will take place in the nearest future in regulation of Armenian-Turkish relations, Head of ARF Armenian Cause and Political Affairs Office Kiro Manoyan forecasted today at a meeting with journalists.

According to him, recalling of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols to the parliament by the Turkish government does not mean anything. "Turkey wants to show that there is some process. Including the protocols issue in the agenda is not news, such steps have been taken earlier too, but the experience shows that nothing is actually done in that direction," Kiro Manoyan said.

He said that the experience shows that Turkey has neither a wish nor a will to regulate the relations. "Despite Armenia's readiness, it continues to speak in the language of preconditions," Kiro Manoyan noted, bringing the Nagorno Karabakh issue as an example, which Turkey always brings forward as a precondition of ratifying the protocols.

"Maintenance of the signature under the protocols is profitable for Turkey," Kiro Manoyan considers, explaining that it attempts to make an influence on Armenia through international community in order the latter does not recall the protocols from the signatures.