Armenia-Turkey Protocols Remain on Parliament Agenda

The Armenia-Turkey Protocols have been removed from the four-day session agenda while they are still on the larger agenda of the Armenian National Assembly, NA Chairman Hovik Abrahamyan said at the opening of today's four-day session in response to Heritage Party Board Chairman Armen Martirosyan's request.

"In general they [protocols] have been removed from the four-day session. The Protocols still remain in the large agenda," said Hovik Abrahamyan.

On April 22 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan had signed decree which suspended the ratification of the Protocols without withdrawing Armenia's signature from those documents.

"Armenia shall retain her signature under the Protocols, because we desire to maintain the existing momentum for normalizing relations, because we desire peace. Our political objective of normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey remains valid, and we shall consider moving forward when we are convinced that there is a proper environment in Turkey and there is leadership in Ankara ready to reengage in the normalization process," Sargsyan had said in his televised address.