ARMENIA HAS OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH TURKEY: US AMBASSADOR
Trend News Agency
02.10.08 18:41
Azerbaijan
Presently Armenia has the "historical opportunity" to establish
relations with Turkey and to advance the process of Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict settlement, the US Ambassador to Armenia Maria Yovanovich
stated.
Maria Yovanovich assured at her first press-conference in Yerevan
that she will make efforts to unblock the Armenian-Turkish border,
achieve settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and further
development of the Armenian-American relations, Mediamax reports.
"Details of initiative are still not clear and it is hard to comment
them, but the United States were always welcoming the initiatives on
strengthening of regional stability, integration and cooperation,"
Maria Yovanovich said. She was commenting on the question about
the US attitude towards Turkey’s initiative on establishment of the
"Platform of stability and cooperation in the Caucasus"
Each conflict is unique and should be solved in its own way, the
US Ambassador said with respect to the perspectives of the Karabakh
settlement amid the US support of Azerbaijani territorial integrity.
"Besides the principle of territorial integrity, which is very
important, there are also the principles of non-use of force and
self-determination. In the Nagorno-Karabakh case the process is
running, it is advancing and we hope to positive development," Maria
Yovanovich said.