Fried hopes for soonest opening of Armenian-Turkish border

September 11, 2008 - 16:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - "We were delighted that the president of Armenia reached out to President Gul and invited him to Yerevan and delighted also that President Gul accepted the invitation," assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs Daniel Fried told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.



He said the United States had been encouraging Armenia and neighboring Turkey and Azerbaijan to work toward settling their differences and that this policy would remain in place.



"I'm glad that we have an ambassador going out there soon and we'd certainly hope to see Armenia's relative isolation end," Fried said. "We want its borders open and its relations improved and we're going to work to that end," he added, Turkish Daily News reports.



Turkey's President Abdullah Gul was in Yerevan on Sept. 6 to watch a World Cup qualifier between the Armenian and Turkish national teams. Before the match, the heads of state discussed possibilities to normalize bilateral relations.
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