Armenia strikes me as a country which failed to learn lessons form the past; Armenia-Turkey rapprochement process is an obvious example of it, said the head of Analytical Center for Globalization and Regional Collaboration, politologist Stepan Grigoryan.
As he told a news conference in Yerevan, Armenian Genocide issue was repeatedly turned into a subject of gambling. “The process on Armenian Genocide resolution launched in US Congress is being politicized and linked with Armenia-Turkey protocols. The situation is pregnant with serious consequences for Armenia, specifically, increased US pressure on Ankara, followed by strengthening of Turkey-Russia alliance,” the politologist said, adding that Armenia doesn’t need recognition of Genocide through blackmail.
As a way out of situation, Stepan Grigoryan suggested for Armenia to directly resolve problems with Turkey, without mediators’ help, trying to separate establishment of diplomatic relations from rapprochement process, as well as ratify Protocols without waiting for Turkish parliament to act first.
According to the politologist, Ankara’s failing to ratify Protocols until April 24 is unlikely to bring rapprochement process against a standstill. “I expect some delays in Protocols ratification, but still believe they will eventually be ratified. April 24 is not the final term for Armenia-Turkey rapprochement,” Stepan Grigoryan emphasized.
He didn’t rule out US President’s using the term Genocide this year in his annual address to American Armenian community, at the same time noting that US Administration wouldn’t have hampered passage of H.Res. 252 in Congress in case it indented to recognize it.
With a vote of 23 to 22, the House Foreign Relations Committee successfully passed House Resolution 252 (H. Res. 252) pushing the Resolution in Congress for a final vote yet to be scheduled.
