An action of protest against the visit of Prime Minister of Turkey to Moscow passed off in Armenia

On March, 16, an action of protest against Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan's visit to Moscow passed off in Armenia near the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. The participants of the action demanded dissolution of the Moscow treaty signed between Turkey and Russia 90 years ago.

The participants were holding posters with slogans "Erdogan = Ataturk, Medvedev = Lenin?", "Moscow treaty is a ninety-year's long disgrace", "Fraternize with anyone you like but not for account of the Armenians" and flags of Armenia and Armenian Revolutionary Front "Dashnaktsutiun" (ARF). In front of the building of the Embassy the people were singing national-patriotic songs and chanting "Disgrace!".

"We demand that Russia should cancel this treaty for it is illegal and contradicts all the international legal regulations on a number of points", "Novosti-Armeina" quotes Armen Rustamyan, representative of the supreme body of ARFD in Armenia and deputy of the Parliament.

The personnel of the Russian Embassy did not come out to meet the manifestants. Nevertheless, the participants found a way to deliver their message. The put it into a coffin they placed in front of the diplomatic mission office with a superscription "Mail-box of the Embassy of the Russian Federation for the Russian-Turkish treaty".

After the participants of the action dispersed policemen moved the coffin to the wall of "Ardshininvestbank" located nearby.

The Youth branch of ARF "Dashnaktsutiun" party, Students' Association "Nikol Agbalyan" and other youth organizations of Armenia as well as deputies of ARFD took part in the action, "Armenia Today" reports.

Note: Moscow treaty is a Russian-Turkish treaty of "friendship and fraternity" signed on March, 16, 1921, in Moscow between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Government of RSFSR. The treaty tallied up international legal division of the Republic of Armenia between RSFSR, Turkey and Azerbaijan.