US: NORMALIZATION OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS SHOULD BE COMPLETED WITHIN A REASONABLE TIMEFRAME
Egemen Bag
04.12.2009 18:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged to continue
to press for an unconditional normalization of Armenian-Turkish
relations which he believes should be completed within a "reasonable
timeframe." Obama hailed the U.S.-backed dialogue between the two
nations as "historic," in a letter to Hirair Hovnanian, Chairman of
the Armenian Assembly of America.
"We will continue to vigorously support the normalization effort in
the months ahead," he said.
The letter dated November 20 came in response to a September
9 joint appeal to Obama from Hovnanian and the leaders of the
Armenian General Benevolent Union and two U.S dioceses of the
Armenian Apostolic Church. The signatories voiced support for the
fence-mending Turkish-Armenian agreements and said Washington
should get Ankara to stop linking their implementation with a
resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict favored by Azerbaijan,
ArmeniaDiaspora.com reports.