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Diaspora protests play no role in Armenian-Turkish relations

While President Serzh Sargsyan’s “Pan-Armenian Tour” is being received with mixed reaction, Armenian political experts are doubtful they will have any influence on the decision of signing the Armenian-Turkish protocols.

The president has already passed half of the tour that started on October 2 (he visited Paris, New York, Los Angeles) and heard the mainly negative viewpoint of Diaspora Armenians concerning those protocols.

The parliamentary and non-parliamentary oppositional parties are unanimously categorically against them, yet even the President’s two other visits to Beirut and Rostov-on-Don will not affect his decision.

The Armenian National Congress (ANC) is sure that Sargsyan’s visit has a formal nature.

“That visit is a theatre, because they (the protocols) are already agreed and initialed documents. And the meetings that have an imitation character will not change anything,” says ANC spokesman Arman Musinyan.

The only way not to sign the protocols, according to ANC, is to dismiss the President. “There is only one way not to sign the protocols – if all the political flows and forces unite and overthrow Serzh Sargsyan,” Musinyan says.

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun also does not have any hopes with the President’s visit.

“I hope that the President will understand that not only the Diaspora, but also people within his country are against them, and that the protocols with such content should not be signed,” says Heritage representative, NA deputy Stepan Safaryan.

Pro-government coalition member Prosperous Armenia Party still abstains from giving comments, waiting for the President’s Rostov-on-Don and Beirut meetings.

Source: ArmeniaNow – Original Article

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