67.2% voted against frontier opening
On May 4, Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian left for Washington to meet with U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton. Tomorrow the State Secretary will receive Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov.
According to Turkish and Azeri mass media the discussions will focus on the Karabakh conflict resolution and normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.
"Both State Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama noted that they want to achieve progress in the conflict settlement. The two FMs are expected to have separate meetings with the State Secretary. The Minsk group Co-Chairs are preparing for the May 7 meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Prague," U.S. Co-Chair Mattew Bryza told Azeri mass media.
He noted that the two issues are quite different but they must be settled parallelly.
"We expect the two issues to be settled simultaneously though at a different pace," added Mr. Bryza.
The U.S. Co-Chair underlined that the normalization of Armenian-Turkish ties does not mean opening of the Armenia-Turkey frontier.
"The opening of the border will follow the improvement of bilateral relations," said the U.S. Co-Chair.
During an interview to APA News Agency, Mr. Mattew Bryza assured that a fair and balanced document is put on the negotiation table.
Note that last week A1+ conducted an Internet poll on the joint statement of Armenian and Turkish FMs on the bettering of bilateral ties.
Only 20.3% of our 2180 respondents think highly of the statement. 67.2% answered in the negative.
