azerbaijan.az
Dec 6 2009
US State Department: `Nagorno-Karabakh will be one of the Main
Discussion issues during Turkish Prime Minister’s Upcoming
Negotiations with US Officials’
Nagorno-Karabakh will be one of the main discussion issues during
Turkish Prime Minister Redjep Tayib Erdogan’s upcoming negotiations
with US officials was told at the US State Department.
Prime-Minister Erdogan will visit Washington DC next week. He will
meet with US president Barak Obama and a number of other high-level US
officials on December 7th.
`The Obama Administration will make sure that Nagorno-Karabakh issue
is addressed during the negotiations with Mr. Erdogan’ ` told in an
interview one of the famous American analysts on Turkey, Ian Lesser,
Expert at Washington DC based German Marshall Fund. He mentioned that
US’s position on Nagorno-Karabakh is clear ` Washington supports the
ongoing peaceful process and is participating in it.
According to the expert, US also will be very clear that, Washington
would like to see the other aspects of the rapprochement between
Armenia and Turkey implemented.
`We would probably commit ourselves to put everything we can do to the
international efforts to solve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh’ `
said American analyst.
Mr. Lesser was a member of the US Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at
the US Department of State, where his portfolio included southern
Europe, Turkey, and the multilateral track of the Middle East peace
process in 1994-1995.
According to analyst, Iran and its nuclear program, Afghanistan and
Turkish-Armenian rapprochement also will be discussed during the
Turkish Prime Minister’s visit to US. Some other issues like PKK,
Cyprus or Missile Defense will be on agenda as well.
`With Iran there is no any certain agreement with on the nuclear
question. Many initiatives were proposed but there are no conclusions
about what Iran’s policy is. There were also some initiatives that
Turkey proposed so clearly Washington would want Turkey to have tough
messages on Iran’s nuclear program’.
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