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    azerbaijan.az
    Dec 6 2009


    US State Department: `Nagorno-Karabakh will be one of the Main
    Discussion issues during Turkish Prime Minister's Upcoming
    Negotiations with US Officials'


    Nagorno-Karabakh will be one of the main discussion issues during
    Turkish Prime Minister Redjep Tayib Erdogan's upcoming negotiations
    with US officials was told at the US State Department.

    Prime-Minister Erdogan will visit Washington DC next week. He will
    meet with US president Barak Obama and a number of other high-level US
    officials on December 7th.

    `The Obama Administration will make sure that Nagorno-Karabakh issue
    is addressed during the negotiations with Mr. Erdogan' ` told in an
    interview one of the famous American analysts on Turkey, Ian Lesser,
    Expert at Washington DC based German Marshall Fund. He mentioned that
    US's position on Nagorno-Karabakh is clear ` Washington supports the
    ongoing peaceful process and is participating in it.

    According to the expert, US also will be very clear that, Washington
    would like to see the other aspects of the rapprochement between
    Armenia and Turkey implemented.

    `We would probably commit ourselves to put everything we can do to the
    international efforts to solve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh' `
    said American analyst.

    Mr. Lesser was a member of the US Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at
    the US Department of State, where his portfolio included southern
    Europe, Turkey, and the multilateral track of the Middle East peace
    process in 1994-1995.

    According to analyst, Iran and its nuclear program, Afghanistan and
    Turkish-Armenian rapprochement also will be discussed during the
    Turkish Prime Minister's visit to US. Some other issues like PKK,
    Cyprus or Missile Defense will be on agenda as well.

    `With Iran there is no any certain agreement with on the nuclear
    question. Many initiatives were proposed but there are no conclusions
    about what Iran's policy is. There were also some initiatives that
    Turkey proposed so clearly Washington would want Turkey to have tough
    messages on Iran's nuclear program'.


    via http://www.isria.com/pages/6_December_2009_40.php
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