Erdogan to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with U.S. officials: U.S. Department of State

Turkish 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 Dec. 7.

“The Obama Administration will make sure that Nagorno-Karabakh issue is addressed during the negotiations with Mr. Erdogan,"  famous American analysts on Turkey, Ian Lesser, Expert at Washington DC based German Marshall Fund.

He said 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.

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."

/APA/