"Armenia should set its preconditions"
Armenia's National Assembly is due to hold hearings on the Armenian-Turkish Protocols on October 1.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)-Dashnaktsutiun, which stages a hunger -strike and sit-in in protest against the documents, doesn't inspire great hopes from the NA hearings.
"The situation is grave in the National Assembly. Majority has no right to speak. The country is endangered and this is a problem the whole national should care about. Sooner or later everyone will come to realize that the country's statehood is periled," ARF member Grigor Matinian said to A1+.
"I think our MPs will sober up and will give a right assessment to the Protocols. The National Assembly was to be the first to express an opinion on the Protocols but as you see the parliament holds hearings upon the initiative of the Dashnaktsutiun," says spokesman for the ARF Supreme Body Areg Savgulian.
Remind: ARF stages a hunger strike in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sit-in - near Government Building.
The strikers say the Protocols must convey preconditions set by the Armenian side and not by Turkey. No borders can be reopened with Turkey unless the latter recognizes the Armenian Genocide, Sever Treaty and Karabakh independence, states the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
