Chavushoglu: As long as the condition of Turkey is not met, the  implementation of the Zurich protocols is impossible

ArmInfo. Until the condition of Turkey remains unfulfilled, the implementation of the Zurich protocols is impossible. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign 

Affairs of Turkey Movlut Cavusoglu at a joint press conference 

following the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Iran and 

Azerbaijan in Baku.  

Answering the question about the fate of the protocols signed between Armenia and Turkey in 2009 in Switzerland, the minister recalled that Armenia submitted these protocols to its Constitutional Court, which in its turn excluded certain important 

articles from the documents. "We wanted to do this under certain 

conditions, the main condition was that Armenia would leave the 

occupied territories, after which we normalize our ties, what will 

happen if Armenia postpones or repeats this agreement?" As long as 

our condition does not exist the implementation of this agreement is 

impossible, "he concluded.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in Athens said that the 

Zurich protocols from 2009 on the normalization of the 

Armenian-Turkish relations on this day, are not ratified, since 

Turkey has put forward unreasonable preconditions, contrary to the 

letter and spirit of the protocols. "These documents can not remain 

in hostages forever, that's why the Armenian president from the 

rostrum of the UN General Assembly stated that Yerevan recognizes the 

protocols as invalid, since there is no positive progress in their 

implementation, and we will meet the spring of 2018 without these 

protocols," Nalbandian.  Nalbandian's statement caused Ankara's 

nervous reaction. The Turkish Foreign Ministry accused the head of 

the Armenian foreign ministry of distorting the truth about the 

Zurich protocols and trying to mislead the international community.  

To which Yerevan stated that this statement of the Turkish Foreign 

Ministry is another shocking example of the distortion of the letter 

and spirit of the Zurich protocols of 2009.  It should be noted that 

the Armenian-Turkish protocols were signed in Zurich on October 10, 

2009.  However, the protocols were never ratified by the parliaments 

of Armenia and Turkey, since Ankara constantly put forward 

preconditions for ratification. In this connection, the process of 

ratification of the protocols in the Armenian parliament was frozen 

by order of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.  And in February 

2015 they were withdrawn from parliament.