Isn’t RA Parliament an independent body?
During his recent visit to London, President Sserzh Sargsyan announced that parliamentary majority of the Republic of Armenia guarantees that Armenian Parliament will ratify the Armenian-Turkish Protocols as soon as Turkey does.
Ex Speaker of RA Parliament Tigran Torosyan says the President was wrong when making such a statement.
"The parliament is an independent body and a deputy is not bound by an imperative mandate," reminded Mr. Torosyan.
Responding to a journalist's question whether the National Assembly would ratify the Protocols, Mr. Torosyan said: "Everything will happen as we have anticipated. Obviously, the voting will be obligatory for the pro-government political forces though I think that all deputies who are somehow familiar to the documents believe that the Protocols are beneficial only for Turkey."
Tigran Torosyan thinks that Turkish Parliament is likely to abstain from the ratification based on the decision of the RA Constitutional Court.
