Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia were just in a recent meeting in St. Petersburg, so we believe that a lot of progress has been made in a relatively short period of time to resolve issues that are of long standing, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the briefing with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu after their meeting, US State Department’s official website reported.
“We are strongly supportive of the Turkish efforts to normalize relations with Armenia, and we are also very strongly supportive of the efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But I do not doubt the commitment, and I certainly appreciate the very strong position that the Turkish Government has taken”, Clinton said.
“The minister and I discussed the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia at length. He brought me up to date on developments. We think it will bring great benefits to the region”, Clinton said.
Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu expressed the strong will politically by Turkish side to continue all the efforts to achieve the goal of creating a prosperous, peaceful Caucasia together.
“We are very optimistic. We want to achieve a prosperous, peaceful Caucasia. And in that sense, we are fully committed to our normalization process with Armenia, and also, we are fully committed and we are ready to work together with United States and other co-chairs of Minsk Group for the resolution of Armenian-Azeri issues”, Turkish FM said.
During the meeting also were discussed mutual relations, energy issues, regional and world issues, the problem of Cyprus and the issue of membership of Turkey in European Union.
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