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THE STATEMENT AND THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF THE MINISTER NALBANDIAN DURING THE JOINT PRESS-CONFERENCE WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES HILLARY CLINTON
http://www.mfa.am/en/press-conference/item/2012/06/04/clinton/
04.06.2012
Dear Secretary of State,
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you again in Armenia. Your
last visit to Yerevan coincided with July the 4th, the National Day of
the United States of America. This visit coincides with the twentieth
anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between our
countries. The coincidence contains a positive symbolism.
Less than two years have passed since your previous visit to Armenia,
but during this period we have had several opportunities to meet in
Washington and different cities in the frameworks of international
conferences. Independent of the month of the year or the place
those meetings were held, they were exclusively warm, meaningful and
fruitful, containing important and positive messages. Your visit to
Armenia, to the region testifies to the United States authorities'
special attention to the South Caucasus. The meetings between the
Armenian and American leaderships, I would underscore the Washington
meeting between Presidents Sargsyan and Obama in April 2010, reflect
our strong will to deepen our relations.
More than a century-long friendship between our two nations, in which
the American-Armenian community has had a special role, was naturally
reflected in the two decades long interstate relations.
Madam Secretary, the mutual trust and understanding existing between
our two countries thanks to our common efforts, thanks to your
personal, invaluable input, are the best pillars for expanding our
friendly partnership.
The bilateral cooperation between the United States and Armenia, which
has reached the highest point in its history, concerns such important
domains as institutional reforms, deepening of democracy, rule of
law, modernization of economy. We have also close interaction in the
international arena covering regional and international security,
non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fight against all
forms of terrorism, peacekeeping operations from Kosovo to Afghanistan
and other global challenges.
The United States, as a Co-Chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group,
has provided its permanent support to the process of the peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This process has been
under the constant attention of the President and State Secretary of
the United States of America. Together with the two other Co-Chair
countries, the United States, deployed intensive efforts and adopted
several high level important joint statements on the settlement of
that issue.
Dear State Secretary, more than once we have expressed our common
approach on the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. That
position has been and remains the normalization of relations
without preconditions. You have made an exclusive contribution to
this process. Unfortunately, the ball continues to remain in the
Turkish court.
20 years ago Secretary James Baker noted that free, democratic,
independent Armenia, as the United States of America, shares the same
values - democracy, liberty, market economy, defense of human rights.
During those 20 years the United States has strongly supported
Armenia. Today humanitarian assistance is gradually turning into
development projects and mutually beneficial cooperation.
Dear Secretary, we express our gratitude to the President Obama's
administration and to you personally for your commitment and
remarkable contribution in the strengthening of Armenian-American
friendly partnership. I hope that the celebration of the twentieth
anniversary of diplomatic relations will open new, wider horizons in
bilateral relations.
I would like once again to welcome you, dear State Secretary, and
your delegation to Armenia.
The floor is yours. Please.
Yerkir Media TV. Madam Secretary, last year Azerbaijan failed
the achievement of an agreement over basic principles of the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue. By making belligerent statements, multiplying
its military budget, every day threatening to start a war Azerbaijan
poses a threat to regional security. Today, on the eve of your visit
as a result of attacks by Azeri subversive groups there are dead and
wounded. Don't you think that the time has come to restore the 907
section of Freedom support Act and as a co-chair of Minsk Group, what
steps should be taken to prevent further escalation of the situation?
And the second question to Minister Nalbandian, Mr. Minister, Turkish
high-ranking officials are claiming that there somewhat negotiations
are being conducted on Armenian-Turkish normalization. Are those
claims corresponding to the reality?
Edward Nalbandian: Negotiations are not conducted, negotiations cannot
be conducted, as the negotiations are over and they had resulted
in signing of the protocols, which Turkey refuses to respect and
implement, trying to put forward preconditions. Turkey has no right
to put preconditions in this issue. This position is shared by the
international community.
I want to add on the first question that we strongly condemn the
violent provocations that are organized by the Azerbaijani side on the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border which, unfortunately, resulted in victims
and wounded, and that Azerbaijan is not satisfied by the fact that
every day there are violations by Azerbaijanis on the line of contact
of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. They are trying to transfer the
tension, to sharpen the situation onto the border between Armenia
and Azerbaijan which greatly undermines the negotiation process, as
well as it is threatening the regional stability. The responsibility
of all the possible consequences of all this lies on Azerbaijan.
From: A. Papazian
http://www.mfa.am/en/press-conference/item/2012/06/04/clinton/
04.06.2012
Dear Secretary of State,
It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you again in Armenia. Your
last visit to Yerevan coincided with July the 4th, the National Day of
the United States of America. This visit coincides with the twentieth
anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between our
countries. The coincidence contains a positive symbolism.
Less than two years have passed since your previous visit to Armenia,
but during this period we have had several opportunities to meet in
Washington and different cities in the frameworks of international
conferences. Independent of the month of the year or the place
those meetings were held, they were exclusively warm, meaningful and
fruitful, containing important and positive messages. Your visit to
Armenia, to the region testifies to the United States authorities'
special attention to the South Caucasus. The meetings between the
Armenian and American leaderships, I would underscore the Washington
meeting between Presidents Sargsyan and Obama in April 2010, reflect
our strong will to deepen our relations.
More than a century-long friendship between our two nations, in which
the American-Armenian community has had a special role, was naturally
reflected in the two decades long interstate relations.
Madam Secretary, the mutual trust and understanding existing between
our two countries thanks to our common efforts, thanks to your
personal, invaluable input, are the best pillars for expanding our
friendly partnership.
The bilateral cooperation between the United States and Armenia, which
has reached the highest point in its history, concerns such important
domains as institutional reforms, deepening of democracy, rule of
law, modernization of economy. We have also close interaction in the
international arena covering regional and international security,
non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fight against all
forms of terrorism, peacekeeping operations from Kosovo to Afghanistan
and other global challenges.
The United States, as a Co-Chair country of the OSCE Minsk Group,
has provided its permanent support to the process of the peaceful
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This process has been
under the constant attention of the President and State Secretary of
the United States of America. Together with the two other Co-Chair
countries, the United States, deployed intensive efforts and adopted
several high level important joint statements on the settlement of
that issue.
Dear State Secretary, more than once we have expressed our common
approach on the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. That
position has been and remains the normalization of relations
without preconditions. You have made an exclusive contribution to
this process. Unfortunately, the ball continues to remain in the
Turkish court.
20 years ago Secretary James Baker noted that free, democratic,
independent Armenia, as the United States of America, shares the same
values - democracy, liberty, market economy, defense of human rights.
During those 20 years the United States has strongly supported
Armenia. Today humanitarian assistance is gradually turning into
development projects and mutually beneficial cooperation.
Dear Secretary, we express our gratitude to the President Obama's
administration and to you personally for your commitment and
remarkable contribution in the strengthening of Armenian-American
friendly partnership. I hope that the celebration of the twentieth
anniversary of diplomatic relations will open new, wider horizons in
bilateral relations.
I would like once again to welcome you, dear State Secretary, and
your delegation to Armenia.
The floor is yours. Please.
Yerkir Media TV. Madam Secretary, last year Azerbaijan failed
the achievement of an agreement over basic principles of the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue. By making belligerent statements, multiplying
its military budget, every day threatening to start a war Azerbaijan
poses a threat to regional security. Today, on the eve of your visit
as a result of attacks by Azeri subversive groups there are dead and
wounded. Don't you think that the time has come to restore the 907
section of Freedom support Act and as a co-chair of Minsk Group, what
steps should be taken to prevent further escalation of the situation?
And the second question to Minister Nalbandian, Mr. Minister, Turkish
high-ranking officials are claiming that there somewhat negotiations
are being conducted on Armenian-Turkish normalization. Are those
claims corresponding to the reality?
Edward Nalbandian: Negotiations are not conducted, negotiations cannot
be conducted, as the negotiations are over and they had resulted
in signing of the protocols, which Turkey refuses to respect and
implement, trying to put forward preconditions. Turkey has no right
to put preconditions in this issue. This position is shared by the
international community.
I want to add on the first question that we strongly condemn the
violent provocations that are organized by the Azerbaijani side on the
Armenia-Azerbaijan border which, unfortunately, resulted in victims
and wounded, and that Azerbaijan is not satisfied by the fact that
every day there are violations by Azerbaijanis on the line of contact
of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh. They are trying to transfer the
tension, to sharpen the situation onto the border between Armenia
and Azerbaijan which greatly undermines the negotiation process, as
well as it is threatening the regional stability. The responsibility
of all the possible consequences of all this lies on Azerbaijan.
From: A. Papazian