Authorities Sould First Stop the War with Their Own People Then ...: HAK

"That football diplomacy was generally planned with the aim to enable United States and Turkey preserving their interallied relations, so that that interallied relationship would not be blown up by the recognition of the Armenian Genocide," Armenian National Congress (HAK) coordinator Levon Zurabyan said at a press conference today, referring to recent developments in the Armenia-Turkey normalization.

"Serzh Sargsyan's decision on suspending the ratification of the Armenia-Turkey Protocols does not bring any change about the ratification of those Protocols in the parliament. Thus, it will be better to call it a decision about the address not one about suspension," said Zurabyan.

According to him the solution to get out of this situation is initiating a process of solidarity and national consensus. In his words to begin with the solidarity process the ruling authorities should first of all halt down the war with their own people, then set free whom he called "political prisoners," and only then the authorities and the opposition can start negotiations over how to address the challenges the country is facing.