YEREVAN, Armenia, April 22 (UPI) -- Armenia decided to halt ratification of a key treaty aimed at normalizing relations with Turkey.
Armenia's ruling coalition said in a statement it halted ratification of the landmark accord signed last October after decades of conflict because of Turkey's refusal to ratify without preconditions.
"Considering the Turkish side's refusal to fulfill the requirement to ratify the accord without preconditions in a reasonable time, making the continuation of the ratification process in the national parliament pointless, we consider it necessary to suspend this process," BBC News quoted from the statement.
Armenia lashed out at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for linking the normalization accords to a resolution over Nagorno-Karabakh, an area of dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
