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Dashnaktsutyun is wrong as always. Dashnaktsutyun has grown into a loss leader in international relations. Some day, who knows, the last can become the first. Let's wait and see. jeshmarid@yahoo.com ...

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Manoyan reminds that the protocols should first be submitted to the Constitutional Court for consideration.

The process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations has entered a wait-and-see phase and one should hardly expect any “shifts” in this issue in the coming months, according to a senior member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun).

Giro Manoyan, director of the International Secretariat of the Dashnaktsutyun Bureau in Yerevan, says that the process of the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish protocols on establishing diplomatic ties and developing bilateral relations (signed in Zurich on October 10) has stalled at the stage of discussions at the parliamentary foreign relations commission. As for the Armenian side, Manoyan reminded that the protocols should first be submitted to the Constitutional Court for consideration (on the subject of their constitutionality), which is not happening yet.

Dashnaktsutyun, a key critic of President Serzh Sargsyan’s policy on Turkey, soon is going to initiate another collection of signatures urging members of the Armenian parliament not to ratify the Zurich protocols that the party views as detrimental to Armenia’s national interests.

“One should hardly expect any changes in the process of the ratification of the Zurich protocols, and in spring, on the threshold of [Genocide Commemoration Day] April 24, Turkey will undertake certain steps that will be of a demonstrative nature in order to show to the international community its readiness to normalize relations with Armenia,” said Manoyan.

The Dashnaktsutyun representative also stressed that this will happen only to prevent a possible adoption of the 1915 Armenian Genocide Resolution by the US Congress.