Armenia FM, US Secretary of State to meet in Zurich
10.10.2009 17:29

Shakeh Avoyan
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Zurich

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and US Secretary of State
Hilary Clinton are scheduled to meet at the residence of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland at 6 p.m. Yerevan time.

The parties are expected to discuss the Armenian-American relations.
Minister Nalbandian will, perhaps, express gratitude to the State
Secretary for her initiative of participating in the Armenian-Turkish
normalization and her willingness to act as a guarantor. Naturally, the
parties will discuss the pre-signed Armenian-Turkish protocols.

Later in the evening the signing ceremony will take place at the Zurich
University, which is expected to last a little less than an hour.
Speeches will be made by the Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Turkey and
Switzerland.

The documents will be the first in the history to be signed between
Armenia and Turkey at the initiative of Armenian and not under outer
pressure and with participation of important role-players of
international politics.

The Foreign Ministers of Russia and France, Sergey Lavrov and Bernard
Kouchner, EU Commissioner for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier
Solana, other senior representatives of world politics have already
arrived in Zurich to be present at the signing ceremony.