Armenia’s ruling party on Wednesday has reaffirmed its support for President Serzh Sarkisian’s dramatic rapprochement with Turkey, stressing that it sees no preconditions in the initialed protocols on normalizing relations expected to be signed by Yerevan and Ankara later this month.
Armenia’s main nationalist forces opposed to the unprecedented rapprochement with Turkey initiated by the current government have vowed joint action to stop the signing of the deal that they view as detrimental to the country’s state and national interests.
A senior representative of Armenia’s ruling party on Monday expressed confidence that a majority of the worldwide Armenian Diaspora supports the current rapprochement with Turkey and, in particular, the two draft protocols envisaging the normalization of bilateral relations that the two countries are expected to sign later this month.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian on Friday warned President Serzh Sarkisian against signing controversial agreements with Turkey but spoke out against further opposition attempts to topple the government at this point.
Senior members of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) expressed concern about the ongoing Turkish-Armenian rapprochement at a meeting with President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday night, top party representatives said on Tuesday.
Two of Armenia’s leading opposition parties will join forces to campaign against the implementation of the Turkish-Armenian agreements, one of their top representatives said on Monday.
A once influential Armenian party supporting President Serzh Sarkisian has taken disciplinary action against one of its members who refused to sign a report justifying the use of deadly force against opposition protesters in March 2008, it emerged on Thursday.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Tuesday scoffed at former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s fresh calls the formation of a broad-based opposition coalition.
President Serzh Sarkisian will lose power if he presses head with the signing of controversial agreements with Turkey, a top leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) warned on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian should visit Turkey next month to keep up momentum in the ongoing efforts to normalize Turkish-Armenian relations, a junior partner in his coalition government said on Thursday.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) is not demanding President Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation yet despite its strong condemnation of his conciliatory policy toward Turkey, a leader of the influential nationalist party reiterated on Tuesday.
