Obama urges Turkey, Armenia to normalize ties soon.
U.S. President Barack Obama urged the foreign ministers of Turkey and Armenia during a meeting on Monday to complete talks aimed at restoring ties between the two neighbors, a U.S. official said."On the margins of tonight's UN Alliance of Civilizations dinner, the president met the foreign ministers of Turkey, Armenia and Switzerland to commend their efforts toward Turkish-Armenian normalisztion and to urge them to complete an agreement with dispatch," a senior U.S. official told reporters in Istanbul.
Obama told reporters earlier in Ankara that he stood by his views on mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, which he has termed genocide, but said he expected a breakthrough in talks between Turkey and Armenia. A breakthrough between Turkey and Armenia could help shore up stability in the volatile Caucasus, criss-crossed by oil and gas pipelines which make it of strategic importance to Russia, Europe and the United States.
No comments:
Post a Comment