‘Dangerous’ Points in Protocols Should be Removed: Armenian Revolutionary Federation

“In Armenia’s history, there have been many processes [which took place] in order to satisfy official approaches,” said Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun, or ARF-D) Supreme Body in Armenia representative Armen Rustamyan, praising the Swedish parliament’s recent decision to approve a bill recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

According to the ARF-D MP, if authorities don’t wish to hinder that process, it would be right to remove the “dangerous,” or threatening, points in the Armenia-Turkey Protocols.

Turning his attention to the ruling coalition’s calls that Sweden’s passing of the Genocide bill supported the existence of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, Rustamyan said:

“It would be good if those who are saying that would explain how it is that the negotiating party’s official representative states that the [point of a] commission of historians is for discussing the Genocide issue; the same is being said by Sweden’s foreign minister, [and] let’s not forget Hillary Clinton’s position.