Hillary Clinton is to arrive in region to move Karabakh conflict settlement forward

PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs Philip Gordon said that the United States is firmly committed to the principles of the Karabakh conflict settlement and determined to work with the parties. According to him, the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group's Co-Chair countries made the statement, as they had in L’Aquila the previous year, demonstrating their commitment at the highest levels to the Minsk Group process and desire to see progress on this issue. He said that all of the principles that the Presidents noted in their statement in Toronto – all of them together are very important and Washington would like to see movement on all of them and commitment to all of them.

According to Gordon, the Secretary of State will have a chance in both countries to underscore what the Presidents said in Toronto the other day.

"One of the purposes of the Secretary’s trip to region is to talk to both parties about how to move that process forward. We’re concerned any time violence takes place anywhere," said Gordon. He also expressed hope that the sides will reiterate their commitment to the Helsinki Principles, the first of which is non-use of force or threat of force.