If Armenia has any claims regarding the signed protocols, it should have declared about it earlier during the discussions.
After the changes introduced by the government and the Constitutional Court of Armenia, the Armenian-Turkish protocols will not be ratified by the Turkish parliament, said Yashar Yakish, chairman of the CE Compliance Commission and former foreign minister of Turkey.
"If Armenia hopes that Ankara will adopt changes made by the Constitutional Court to the protocols signed with Turkey, it is mistaken. Ankara will never adopt them", Yashar Yakish said.
The international practice has no rule that after signing any international document it can be introduced some changes from the side of the internal legislative body, Yakish said.
The Turkish government has signed protocols not with the Constitutional Court but with the Armenian government and the decision taken by the said body is an internal affair of Yerevan that has no attitude to Turkey, he added.
He said if Armenia has any claims regarding the signed protocols, it should have declared about it earlier during the discussions.
Even if the Turkish prime minister puts the issue of ratification of these protocols for discussion in the parliament, the Turkish deputies will not confirm them unless there is a positive achievement in the Karabakh issue. “If the deputies of the Turkish parliament have declared that they will not ratify the Armenian-Turkish protocols unless the Karabakh issue is settled and their decision cannot be changed by the prime minister, the foreign minister or the president of the country”, Yakish said.
As for the efforts taken by the United States and Russia that are co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group, Yakish said Washington is currently more interested in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict as the delay in this issue may have a negative influence on the relations with such US ally as Turkey.
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