ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE DISCUSS ARMENIAN- TURKISH RELATIONS
Interfax
April 28 2009
Russia
Armenian Foreign Minister and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
discussed on the phone Armenian- Turkish relations and Nagorno-Karabakh
on Monday.
Clinton welcomed the joint statement of the Armenian, Turkish and
Swiss Foreign Ministries and said it was a historic step towards
natural relations.
On Thursday, the Armenian, Turkish Foreign Ministries, and the Swiss
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) made a joint statement
on the settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations and a road map.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry also said that the U.S. Secretary of
State expressed its support to the negotiating process in terms of
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk
Group for Nagorno-Karabakh and said it hoped that this process will
see positive progress.
The talk was held on the initiative of the U.S., the Foreign Ministry
said.
However the oppositional Armenian National Congress said the
Armenian-Turkish relations and Nagorno-Karabakh were discussed by
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairman Matthew Bryza, the U.S. Ambassador
to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch and representatives of the oppositional
congress, Levon Zarubian and David Shakhnazarian.