The Armenia-Turkey Protocols signing arouse “angry opposition among powerful Armenian nationalists, which could yet undermine President Serzh Sarksyan and torpedo the whole process,” Kuwait Times reads.
The source underlines that “peace would bring big economic benefits to poor, landlocked Armenia, while Turkey would burnish its credentials as a potential EU entry state and a reliable energy transit country by solving a border dispute. Villagers in the border region, an unforgiving landscape of rock and barren land, enthuse about new trade routes beyond the guard towers manned by soldiers of Armenian ally Russia.”
Commenting on the Armenia-Turkey accord, Kuwait Times quotes Armenian Heritage Party MP Raffi Hovhannisian: “This is an act of complicity where the Armenian state and presidency is taking part in the burial of the Armenian question and in the ceding of rights to memory, to homeland and ultimately the right of return to the ancestral patrimony. This is one of those visceral, existential issues that go to the core of Armenian identity and rights.”
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