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Iran and Armenia top agenda of Davutoglu’s bilateral talks in Washington D.C.

15 April 2010 03:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Iran and Armenia were on top of the agenda of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s talks in Washington, D.C. during Nuclear Security Summit, APA reports quoting turkishny.com web-page. Davutoglu reaffirmed Turkey’s commitment to normalisation process with Armenia and relayed the message that Turkey disapproved sanctions on Iran.
Davutoglu relayed the message to Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that, "Turkey is committed to the process and works on creative ideas to advance the process".
Clinton gave information to Davutoglu about the developments regarding Minsk process and the two discussed normalisation of Turkey-Armenia relations and reform works in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Davutoglu told Clinton that Azerbaijan should also be invited to the summit and expressed Turkey’s target that Armenia issue should be prevented from casting shadow over Turkey’s relations with the United States every year.
Diplomatic sources said Davutoglu and Clinton would meet again on Wednesday.
Davutoglu and Nalbandian sat side by side during the lunch hosted by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Upon a joke that, "you will solve the problem here", Davutoglu, with a loud voice that could be heard from the other tables, said, "we will solve if the third parties do not cast shadow".