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Grand National Assembly of Turkey has already fixed the day for
the discussion of the protocols, however, no statement is
provided by Armenia concerning the day when the protocols will
enter the National Assembly of Armenia. But after the statement
of the Republicans it becomes clear that Armenia will take steps
after Turkey ratifies the protocols (after October 21).
Vahan Hovhannisyan, the head of the
parliamentary faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)
Dashnaktsutyun estimates this step as a non-oriented policy of a
coward, because first of all Armenia is supposed to decide what
it wants, and not follow Turkey’s steps and make decisions
afterwards. “So it means that we cannot say anything
independently,” Hovhannisyan says.
Anyway, the Dashnaks do not want to wait
until the protocols are ratified, and they are planning to
organize a rally near Moscow Cinema in central Yerevan on
October 16, which, though applied for, was not authorized by the
Municipality of Yerevan, and as it is prescribed by the law, it
did not suggest any alternative venue for the rally. “Besides,
they (the authorities) said that they are going to organize a
party for children there, but we found out that there would be
no event there, so we will hold our rally,” Hovhannisyan says.
In its turn, the Armenian National Congress
(ANC) announces that they are not going to change their position
and that they will not join the ARF concerning this issue. ANC
coordinator Levon Zurabyan states that “what Dashnaks are doing
is a theatrical step dictated from the presidential palace and
that it is an unprincipled noise.”
The ANC keeps demanding a power change,
stating that a little is left for their struggle: Turkey has got
what it wanted, that is to say, the issue of the Armenian
Genocide is removed from the agenda of the US Congress, and that
the US president will no longer make a speech on April 24, and
that people will no longer believe that he might recognize the
Armenian Genocide.
Whereas, Hovhannisyan is convinced that the
ANC’s aim is to use any subject for the purpose of coming to
power.
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