ArmInfo. Until the condition of Turkey remains unfulfilled, the implementation of the Zurich protocols is impossible. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Movlut Cavusoglu at a joint press conference following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan in Baku.
Answering the question about the fate of the protocols signed between Armenia and Turkey in 2009 in Switzerland, the minister recalled that Armenia submitted these protocols to its Constitutional Court, which in its turn excluded certain important articles from the documents. "We wanted to do this under certain conditions, the main condition was that Armenia would leave the occupied territories, after which we normalize our ties, what will happen if Armenia postpones or repeats this agreement?" As long as our condition does not exist the implementation of this agreement is impossible, "he concluded.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in Athens said that the Zurich protocols from 2009 on the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations on this day, are not ratified, since Turkey has put forward unreasonable preconditions, contrary to the letter and spirit of the protocols. "These documents can not remain in hostages forever, that's why the Armenian president from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly stated that Yerevan recognizes the protocols as invalid, since there is no positive progress in their implementation, and we will meet the spring of 2018 without these protocols," Nalbandian. Nalbandian's statement caused Ankara's nervous reaction. The Turkish Foreign Ministry accused the head of the Armenian foreign ministry of distorting the truth about the Zurich protocols and trying to mislead the international community. To which Yerevan stated that this statement of the Turkish Foreign Ministry is another shocking example of the distortion of the letter and spirit of the Zurich protocols of 2009. It should be noted that the Armenian-Turkish protocols were signed in Zurich on October 10, 2009. However, the protocols were never ratified by the parliaments of Armenia and Turkey, since Ankara constantly put forward preconditions for ratification. In this connection, the process of ratification of the protocols in the Armenian parliament was frozen by order of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. And in February 2015 they were withdrawn from parliament.