President Serzh Sargsyan may refuse to travel to Bursa for a football match teams of Armenia and Turkey on 14 October in response to strong statements of official Ankara, following the signing in Zurich on October 10 bilateral protocols on establishing diplomatic relations and the development of relations.
This today in Yerevan, said the Director of the Armenian National Center for Strategic and National Studies (ACNIS) Richard Giragosian.
According to him, the main challenge to the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations lies in the probability of delaying the process of ratification of the protocols in the Turkish Parliament. Giragosian expressed the view that Ankara will begin consideration of the documents in early 2010, "before continuing the tactics of ongoing testing position of the Armenian side."
"It seems that the Prime Minister and the President of Turkey and Armenia are in good and evil police, speculating the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," said the head ACNIS. In this regard, he called for the ratification of the protocols in the Armenian parliament, after they are ratified in Ankara.
Richard Giragosian said that "seems to be happy in Ankara, the lack of a unified approach on Armenian-Turkish relations, both between Armenia and the Diaspora, and in the Armenian society."
As an adequate measures "Yerevan must toughen its position as the Turkish side respects the strong diplomacy," he said. In this context, a political scientist, welcomed an appeal to the people of Armenia President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, which preceded the signing of the protocols in Zurich. "This statement gives us hope for the future of Armenia and the Armenian people," said Giragosian.