U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REPLIES TO PRO-ARMENIAN CONGRESSMEN

04.10.2005 [12:24]
Print
A⁺ A^-

A group of Congressmen addressing President Bush appealed to him to recognize the so-called “Nagorno Karabakh Republic“, correspondent of AZERTAC reports. The letter runs: “The United States has rendered direct humanitarian assistance to Nagorno Karabakh to restore the war-torn economy”. The Congressmen ask George bush to increase this aid and uphold the “Nagorno Karabakh residents’ rights for self-determination”. The most surprised is that according to the Congressmen, “Nagorno Karabakh made significant contribution to peace and stability in the strategically important South Caucasus region”.

The Department of State has replied to these pro-Armenian members of Congress. Spokesman of the State Department Mr. Mccormack in his daily briefing has stated that there is no change in the policy over Nagorno Karabakh “We support the work that the OSCE Minsk Group as well as any efforts by Azerbaijan and Armenia to resolve the conflict there is no change in our policy”.

It has to be mentioned that in February current year the United States had disseminated its official position over the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the fact list titled “United States and Nagorno Karabakh”. At that time it was noted “the United States does not recognize Nagorno Karabakh as independent state, its authorities are neither recognized by the international community, nor the US. The United States supports territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and considers that the future status of Nagorno Karabakh should be specified through negotiations between the sides”.

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REPLIES TO PRO-ARMENIAN CONGRESSMEN

FEEDBACK

Other news in this section