Interfax, Russia
Dec 4 2009

Washington backs Karabakh peaceful settlement process

YEREVAN Dec 4

The United States supports the efforts by the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group to settle the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense Celeste Wallander at a meeting with Armenian leaders.

Wallander said that the Obama administration supports the process of a
peaceful resolution to the Karabakh conflict, based on the principles
of the renouncement of the use or threat of force, territorial
integrity, the equality of peoples and the right of nations to
self-determination, the U.S. Embassy in Armenia told Interfax.

While in Yerevan, Wallander met with Armenia’s President Serzh
Sargsian, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and other officials.