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    SARKISIAN VOWS CLOSER TIES WITH U.S.

    Armenialiberty.org
    Oct 19 2011

    Armenia - President Serzh Sarkisian (R) meets with U.S. Deputy
    Secretary of State William Burns, 19Oct2011.19.10.2011

    President Serzh Sarkisian reaffirmed his stated desire to bolster
    Armenia's ties with the United States as he met with the visiting U.S.

    Deputy Secretary of State William Burns late on Wednesday.

    Burns arrived in Yerevan on the second leg of his tour of the three
    South Caucasus states. He held talks with Sarkisian and Foreign
    Minister Edward Nalbandian.

    A statement by Sarkisian's press office said the Armenian leader told
    Burns that "Armenia has always been ready to strengthen relations
    with the United States." He said those relations are a "guarantee"
    of the success of political and economic reforms in Armenia as well
    as regional stability.

    Sarkisian also praised the U.S. role in international efforts to end
    the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, one of the main issues on the agenda
    of Burns's talks in Baku and Yerevan.

    According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the U.S. official told
    Nalbandian that the Karabakh dispute can only be resolved peacefully.

    Speaking after talks with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on
    Tuesday, Burns likewise said that Washington believes that there can
    be no "military solution" to the conflict. But he also stressed that
    the Karabakh status quo cannot last much longer.

    The Foreign Ministry said normalization of Armenia's relations with
    Turkey was also on the agenda of Nalbandian's meeting with Burns. "The
    U.S. deputy secretary of state said that the United States will
    continue to support that process," it added without elaborating.




    From: A. Papazian
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