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    HILLARY CLINTON TO DISCUSS REGIONAL ISSUES IN ARMENIA

    Aysor
    June 30 2010
    Armenia

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is to travel to Ukraine,
    Poland, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia from July 1 to 5, said on
    the Department of State's official web-site.

    In Kyiv, Secretary Clinton will open the second meeting of the
    Strategic Partnership Commission and meet with government officials,
    including President Yanukovych and Foreign Minister Gryshchenko, and
    with civil society and independent media leaders. In Krakow, Secretary
    Clinton will participate in the celebration of the 10th anniversary
    of the founding of the Community of Democracies, an organization
    initiated by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her
    Polish counterpart Bronislaw Geremek in 2000. Secretary Clinton will
    also meet with Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski.

    The Secretary will continue on to Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia,
    where she will hold meetings with government officials and civil
    society leaders to discuss bilateral issues, as well as issues related
    to regional peace and stability.

    Briefing reporters on the trip, Assistant Secretary of State for
    European Affairs Philip Gordon said the Obama administration is
    dissatisfied with Russia's failure to date to live up to cease-fire
    requirements.

    "We respect Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and
    we call on Russia to abide by its commitments in the August 2008
    cease-fire, which not only called for the non-use of force and an end
    to hostilities, but called upon the parties to move their military
    forces back to where they were before the conflict began, and that
    hasn't been done," Philip Gordon is quoted as saying.

    Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that talks in Yerevan
    will be aimed at items of development and strengthening of Armenia-US
    relations and partnership. Among highlights there will be regional
    and international issues of mutual interest, he said.

    The trip will be Clinton's first travel to the Caucasus region since
    taking office.




    From: A. Papazian
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