The Armenian Community & Church Council of Great Britain (ACCC) has followed with deep concern the developments which have on the 10th of October 2009 culminated in the signing of the Protocols for the establishment of Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey.

On Oct. 8, William Schabas, the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), addressed an open letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, in which he said: “Acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide must be the starting point of any ‘impartial historical commission,’ not one of its possible conclusions.”

The Homenetmen Western United States Regional Executive, with its more than 8000 members, stands firmly in support of each and every one of you. We support the self sacrificing decision each of you have made, at the risk of your own welfare and health, to starve yourselves directly in front of the consulate of our homeland – the government of which today is less than 48 hours from its intended destruction of our cause.

From the streets of Paris, to New York, to Beverly Hills, to Glendale, to Beirut to Yerevan to Stepanakert, our message has been made. Not the Diaspora’s message, not Artsakh’s message, not the ARF’s message, not a radical message, not a fragmented message, not a mumbling, insincere stuttering message, but our message.

Leading Russian-Armenian organizations joined popular online news sites in opposing the Armenia-Turkey protocols by issuing a terse announcement Tuesday, ahead of President Serzh Sarkisian’s visit to Rostov on the last leg of his Diaspora tour.

The Protocols for establishing diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey, although intended to help normalize relations between the two countries, raise serious questions about the process, and contain pitfalls, which I have set out below for your kind consideration.

Several representatives of the Armenian press in the diaspora spoke at a press conference held earlier today focusing on recent developments in Armenian-Turkish relations and the upcoming tour of various diaspora communities by RoA President Serzh Sarkisian.

We find the visit by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian to important Diaspora communities to consult on the already agreed upon protocols on the establishment and development of relations between Armenia and Turkey to be late and moot.

In the name of all Armenian women widowed by the Turkish scythe and their orphaned children, we ask the Armenian Government to take a step back from the edge of the precipice, and to realize the grave consequences, and to join the protest raised globally against these dubious protocols, and to reinstate the unity of the people and the state.

The Armenian General Benevolent Union’s Central Board of Directors issued an announcement September 14 on the protocols for the establishment and development of relations between Armenia and Turkey.

WASHINGTON—Former US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans, during an international webcast of an Armenian National Committee of America town hall meeting Thursday, called the Armenia-Turkey protocols “flawed.”
“This is a flawed document,” said Evans.
“I think that the impulse to try to get diplomatic relations started and to get the border opened was a good impulse. In [...]

On Thurs., Sept. 3, the co-chairmen of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, Representatives Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) expressed reservations regarding Turkey’s willingness to cooperate in the implementation of its agreements under a set of recently signed protocols on the normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).