SARGSYAN-OBAMA MEETING CONFIRMED, BUT NO TRILATERAL MEETING WITH ERDOGAN

Tert.am
07.04.10

As part of the April 12-13 Nuclear Security Summit, US President Barack
Obama is currently planning to host a number of bilateral meetings,
including meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, said White
House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, according to an official White
House briefing.

Asked about a possible trilateral meeting with Obama, Sargsyan and
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gibbs simply said,
"No meeting."

Asked specifically about agenda items on Obama’s mind for the bilateral
meetings, Gibbs said:

"Well, look, each of these — some of them are — some of them,
obviously, deal with — directly with our proliferation efforts. Some
of them will also deal with the fact that some of these countries
we’ve not had a chance to sit down with.

"Some of them — there are issues that may lie slightly outside
of something like proliferation — Armenia comes to mind with the
normalization of relations. So I think there are a whole host of
things. Obviously the focus is on nuclear security."

Robert Gibbs noted the country’s leaders with whom Obama will be
meeting. Important to note, however, was that Erdogan was not named
in that list.