LAURA KENNEDY CALLS ARMENIA AND TURKEY TO COORDINATE APPROACHES

Deputy Assistant to US Secretary of State Laura Kennedy stated the US supports reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia, Associated Press reported. She rated the exchange of letters by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Robert Kocharian as “promising”. At that Laura Kennedy called upon both parties to coordinate the approaches. When commenting on Erdogan’s proposal on formation of a joint commission of the investigation of the fact of the Genocide and Robert Kocharian’s reply-proposal on establishing diplomatic relations without preconditions Ms. Kennedy said, “What not have both? We fully support the reconciliation between the governments of the two states.”