The U.S. puts difference between the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the South Ossetian problem. Non-recognition of the referendum in Tskhinvali doesn't foretell a similar decision on referendum in NKR, ARF Bureau's Hay Dat and Political Office Director Kiro Manoian told a news conference in Yerevan today. He reminded that unlike the other self-declared republics of the former USSR Nagorno Karabakh receives annual assistance from the U.S. government. "The problem of South Ossetia is the issue of the Russian-Georgian relations and it would be incorrect to draw parallels between these two conflicts," he said.