Philip Gordon: U.S. continues to strongly support direct dialogue between Yerevan and Ankara

PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon said that the Armenian -Turkish normalization is still important for the U.S.

“I can say, as a general rule, that very often when we meet with our Turkish counterparts and the Secretary meets with her Turkish counterpart, the question of Turkey/Armenia comes up, because it’s very important to us. There have been efforts over the past several years to improve that relationship, which we’ve made clear we strongly support. Those efforts have recently stalled, which we’ve made clear we regret because we believe it’s in the interest of both countries to continue the normalization process, reestablish relations, and have friendly relations and open trade from which both countries would benefit. So we continue to strongly support direct dialogue between the two countries and normalization of their relationship. And we bring it up very frequently with our counterparts on both sides,” Gordon said at Foreign Press Center in Washington, answering a question of Armenian Public TV reporter.