Mediamax, Armenia
April 24 2009
Armenian leader, US vice-president discuss ties with Turkey
Yerevan, 24 April: US Vice-President Joseph Biden held a telephone
conversation with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, welcoming a joint
statement issued by the Armenian and Turkish Foreign Ministries and
the readiness to normalize bilateral relations.
Mediamax news agency quoted a report by the White House as reporting
that "the US vice-president expressed admiration for Sargsyan’s
leadership and noted that the US administration will support Armenia
and Turkey under this process in every possible way".
In an interview with Mediamax news agency, the head of the
presidential press service, Samvel Farmanyan, said that this is a
second telephone conversation between Biden and Sargsyan in a week. He
pointed out that the conversation took place at the initiative of the
American side on 23 April. Sargsyan spoke with Biden from the board of
his plane, while returning to Yerevan from Moscow.
"The US vice-president said that US State Department statement
that the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations should take
place without preconditions and in a reasonable period of time
reflects the position of US President Barack Obama and the US
administration," Samvel Farmanyan said.