President Serzh Sargsyan had a telephone conversation with the President of the United States, Barak Obama

While in Los Angeles, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan had a telephone conversation with the President of the United States, Barak Obama. The call was initiated by the American side.

The President of the United States expressed his support to the Armenian President in his efforts aimed at the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. President Obama reiterated the official position of Washington that the process of normalization must go on without preconditions and must not be linked to the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

President Sargsyan thanked the President of the United States for his support of the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey and shared his impressions of his Pan-Armenian tour. Serzh Sargsyan underlined that the concern and apprehension of the Armenians spread all over the world was quite understandable, considering the fact that in the Ottoman Turkey the Armenian nation was subjected to Genocide, which has been stated by President Obama in many of his speeches.

President Sargsyan also thanked President Obama for great mediating efforts undertaken by the American side in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. He stressed Armenia’s readiness to move forward toward a peace resolution of the conflict, anchored on the right of the people of Nagorno Karabakh to determine their final status through free will, which constitutes the core of the Madrid principles proposed by the Minsk Group.