Our last question was: “If on the day of the FIFA Armenia-Turkey football game, the border is closed, regardless of whatever promises are made, should the Armenian president go to the game”?

The majority of those who took part in our poll, more than 69 percent or 204 people think that the president shouldn’t go to Turkey to watch the football match in October, if Turkey doesn’t open the border by then. And the remaining 27.3 percent or 80 people think that the president should go, regardless of the border being open by October or not.

We can assume that those 80 who think that the president should go to Turkey think that another gesture of good will on the Armenian side will still leave the doors open for normalization of relations. While not going will clearly mean that Armenia has no further intentions to keep knocking on Turkey’s door, asking them to normalize relations.

The majority who thinks that the president ought to refrain from going to Turkey via closed border presumably share our concerns: Turkey has exploited the good will of the Armenian and international communities, and that it’s time to put clear deadlines for the border opening. There is no major obstacle from the Turkish side to open the border before October, if their intentions to normalize the relationships with Armenia are genuine. But if Turkey wants to continue the game of using the publicity of the Armenia-Turkey negotiations, the “football” diplomacy to engage in the Karabakh resolution process, and to try to make it a precondition for opening the border, and finally blame Armenia for “unwillingness” to make the normalization possible, then should the Armenian president engage in that “football” game? The majority of those who took part in our polls think that he shouldn’t.