By Asbarez | Monday, 15 March 2010
WASHINGTON (Combined Sources)-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday invited President Serzh Sargsyan to visit Washington next month, in a telephone conversation that appears to have centered on the stalled rapprochement talks between Turkey and Armenia, reported RFE/RL.
Sargsyan's office said Clinton phoned the Armenian leader to invite him to an international summit on nuclear energy security that will take place in Washington in mid-April. It said she expressed hope that the two sides will use the occasion to "continue discussing issues on the bilateral, regional and international agenda." It gave no further details, according to RFE/RL.
The phone call came the day after Sargsyan suggested that Turkey will not unconditionally normalize relations with Armenia anytime soon and again threatened to annul the U.S.-brokered protocols signed by the two nations in October.
The invitation to Sargsyan comes months after the conference had already been scheduled without an invitation being sent to Armenia. The summit will come ahead of April 24, the international day of commemoration for the Armenian Genocide.
The invitation to Sargsyan is seen by many as the administration's latest attempt to give Obama an excuse once again not to recognize the Armenian Genocide in his April 24 address.
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