Following the parliamentary elections in Turkey, new opportunities might emerge for the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement.
It is impossible that the Armenia-Turkey Protocols be ratified at the Turkish National Grand Assembly at the moment, Turkish Deputy Undersecretary, Ambassador Selim Yenel said.
Yenel made the statement at a discussion organized by the German Marshall Fund in US.
He also said that some steps need to be taken over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for the Protocols to be ratified – a statement that has repeatedly been made by other senior Turkish officials and faced strong opposition by Yerevan.
He also said that following the parliamentary elections in Turkey, new opportunities might emerge for the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement.
Following Turkey’s closure of the border with Armenia in 1993 the relations between Armenia and Turkey took a major step forward on October 10, 2009 when Turkish Foreign Minsiter Davutoglu and Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandyan signed protocols on establishing diplomatic relations and developing bilateral relations.
The documents, signed in Switzerland, have to be ratified by both countries to come into force.
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