US PRODS ARMENIA, TURKEY ON DIPLOMATIC TIES
2009/09/29 | 12:19
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Turkey and Armenia
Monday to carry out their plans to normalise ties soon during separate
meetings with their foreign ministers.
According to a Reuters report, "I want to reiterate our very strong
support for the normalization process that is going on between
Armenia and Turkey, which we have long said should take place
without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe," Clinton
told reporters as she sat down with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
She later met Turkish Foreign Ahmet Davutoglu.
A U.S. official said Clinton does not want the signing to be disrupted
by Armenian nationalist demands that Turkey acknowledge the 1915
killings as genocide or by demands by some Turks for a resolution of
the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.