YEREVAN, APRIL 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian side should immediately rescind its signatures from the Armenian-Turkish protocols, said Ara Nranian, a member of the "ARF" parliamentary faction, during the April 29 debate. In his opinion, the dangers that they noticed in the protocols have not been neutralized: the protocols contain preconditions and pose a danger to Armenia's security. "The authorities denied from the very first that there are preconditions in the protocols, but now they have made sure that these dangers exist. You do not ratify the protocols because you see the dangers posed by them," Ara Nranian said, addressing another participant of the debate - the member of "Republican party of Armenia" (RPA) faction Sukias Avetisian. For his part, S. Avetisian insisted on RPA's viewpoint that there are no preconditions in the protocols and that by announcing its decision on suspension of the protocols, the Armenian side gave Turkey to understand that Armenia will not make any concessions in the process of normalizing relations with Turkey. "At the same time, the suspension of the normalization process was not conditioned by the preconditions set by the Turkish side: the expiry of reasonable timeframes was the reason for suspension," he noted. In response to A. Nranian's remark that Armenia did not ratify the protocols because it perceived the dangers from them, A. Sukiasian declared: "If the Armenian-Turkish protocols are discussed again, they will be discussed in the same text. There are no dangers".

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