SERZH SARGSYAN: ARMENIA ATTACHES MUCH IMPORTANCE TO ARMENIAN-AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP

Noyan Tapan
Oct 20, 2009

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia attaches much importance to
Armenian-American partnership and is grateful to the U.S. government
for its great assistance to Armenia since Armenia’s independence, as
well as for its efforts aimed at establishment of peace and stability
in the region. RA President Serzh Sargsyan declared this on October
20, receiving Tina Kaidanow, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Eurasian Affairs.

According to a report by RA President’s Press Office, issues regarding
the development prospects of Armenian-American bilateral relations,
normalization process of Armenia-Turkey relations, and regional
security were discussed at the meeting.

The interlocutors attached importance to progress recorded in the
normalization process of Armenia-Turkey relations and emphasized that
establishment of relations should take place without preconditions
and in reasonable time constraints.

Tina Kaidanow said that the United States at various levels has
repeatedly expressed its position and will stay loyal to it in the
next stages of normalization process. S. Sargsyan said that Armenia
is for such solution of problems that will contribute to stable peace
and development.

The sides also touched upon expansion prospects of Armenian-American
bilateral relations and democratic processes in Armenia. Tina Kaidanow
attached importance to the perceptible progress in the process of
democratization and the amnesty granted recently mentioning that the
amnesty and the steps following it are a great positive impulse in
the respect of democratization processes.