HAK: “Serzh Sargsyan is entangled in a spider's web”
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) has issued a statement on President Serzh Sargsyan's decision on freezing the Armenian-Turkish peace deal.
"The move is merely confirmation of the bankrupt nature of Sargsyan’s “pro-active” policy. The Congress is for the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations but does not accept Turkey's demand "to set up a historians' commission in order to study the events of April 24, 1915."
The formation of the commission not only questions the Armenian Genocide but also spoils Armenian-Turkish relations instead of promoting the reconciliation process.
By signing the disgraceful protocols in Zurich, the administration of Serzh Sargsyan pursed one objective - to seek support for the illegitimate regime coming to power through rigged presidential elections and the massacre of March 1, 2008.
The warning of the Armenian National Congress against that hazardous process came true. Contrary to the uttered goals, the Armenian-Turkish peace process turned into an Armenian-Turkish confrontation.
Taking advantage of Armenian regime's inability, Turkey consistently continued linking the ratification of the Protocols and the opening of the border with the settlement of the Karabakh conflict
The international pressure in view of the Karabakh issue did not decrease, rather, it increased to such an extent that Armenia, for the first time in its history, had to restrict Karabakh's rights to self-determination within Azerbaijan's territorial integrity /OSCE announcement made in Athens/
Linking Armenian-Turkish rapprochement with the Karabakh conflict resolution, Turkey managed to take a key role, though a dangerous one for Armenia, in the talks over Karabakh at the same time endangering the optimal format of the negotiations -the OSCE Minsk group.
President Serzh Sargsyan, entangled in a spider's web of his own "initiative-taking" policy, is no more capable of neutralizing the damages of his own policy.
Suspending the peace deal and at the same time pledging not to walk away from the process, the regime has appeared at a deadlock in attempts to save its image in the international community.
In the result of wrong political calculations, the regime, assuming contradictory commitments, smears Armenia's image as a reliable partner in the international domain."
