President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan submitted the Armenian-Turkish Protocols to the National Assembly of Armenia for ratification without making relevant amendments to the Protocols as required by the Constitutional Court of Armenia.
The president, hereby, did not fulfill the decision by the Constitutional Court and violated the points 5,6,100 and 102 of the Constitution of Armenia, says the letter of the New Times Party Board to Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Armenia Gagik Haroutiunyan.
On January 12 2010 the Constitutional Court of Armenia recognized the commitments in the Armenian-Turkish Protocols in compliance with the Constitution of Armenia. The CC resumed that the commitments in the Protocols are of mutual interstate interest and cannot apply to third countries.
The CC highlighted that the prior provision in the Protocols is opening of the actual Armenian-Turkish border and all the other commitments will obtain legal force only after the border is open. Afterwards, Foreign Minister of Turkey said that the Armenian CC resolution contains preconditions and provisions contradicting to the Protocols signed in Zurich on October 10 2009. To come into effect, the protocols are to be ratified by the two
countries’ parliaments.
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