LAURA KENNEDY CALLS ARMENIA AND TURKEY TO COORDINATE APPROACHES

Pan Armenian News
04.05.2005 04:26

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Deputy Assistant to US Secretary of State Laura
Kennedy stated the US supports reconciliation between Turkey and
Armenia, Associated Press reported. She rated the exchange of letters
by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President
Robert Kocharian as “promising”. At that Laura Kennedy called
upon both parties to coordinate the approaches. When commenting
on Erdogan’s proposal on formation of a joint commission of the
investigation of the fact of the Genocide and Robert Kocharian’s
reply-proposal on establishing diplomatic relations without
preconditions Ms. Kennedy said, “What not have both? We fully support
the reconciliation between the governments of the two states.”