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    Armenia foreign minister to visit U.S. May 3-5

    17:05 | 02/ 05/ 2009


    YEREVAN, May 2 (RIA Novosti) - Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard
    Nalbandyan is due to visit Washington on May 3-5 at the invitation of
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Armenia's foreign ministry
    said on Saturday.

    Clinton will hold talks with her Armenian counterpart on Monday to try
    and find a settlement to the long-running Nagorny Karabakh conflict and
    following a Swiss-mediated agreement on a "roadmap" between Yerevan and
    Turkey.

    Armenia and Turkey reached an agreement April 23 on a "roadmap" aimed
    at normalizing bilateral relations, which have been virtually
    non-existent following a bitter row over the massacre of ethnic
    Armenians in Turkey in the early 20th century.

    Clinton will also meet with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
    Mammadyarov on Tuesday prior to talks between the Armenian and
    Azerbaijani leaders in Prague on May 7.

    Earlier U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and
    Eurasian Affairs Mathew Bryza said that a resolution on Nagorny
    Karabakh was "possible in the next few months."

    The border between Armenia and Turkey was closed in 1993 on Ankara's
    initiative following fighting between Armenia and Turkey's ally,
    Azerbaijan, over Nagorny Karabakh.

    The disputed region has a majority Armenian population, but which is
    within Azerbaijan's borders, declared its independence form Azerbaijan
    in late 1991 and has been a source of conflict ever since.

    Turkey has said it wants talks with Armenia to take place in parallel
    to Armenian-Azerbaijani discussions on the future status of the region.
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