The USA on Thursday reacted to Russian border guards’ withdrawal from Yerevan airport calling it “a welcome step in the appropriate course,” TURAN’s Washington correspondent reviews.
The blunt goodbye got here this week, just some months after Armenia introduced that it had despatched an official request to Russia asking it to take away its border troops from the Zvartnots airport, amid a severe deterioration in relations between Yerevan and Moscow early this 12 months.
“It was, after all, regarding improvement then.. However actually [the Russian withdrawal] can be a welcome step in the appropriate course,” State Division’s spokesperson Vedant Patela instructed a each day briefing when responding to TURAN’s questions.
Previous to the Russian border guards’ departure from Zvartnots, a key U.S. diplomat overseeing Eurasia, James O’Brien, instructed a Senate listening to that he hoped Moscow would honour the ‘sovereign needs of Armenia’ by eradicating its border guards from Zvartnots ‘in order that Armenia can construct the relationships that it needs’.
Throughout yesterday’s briefing, TURAN additionally requested Patel concerning the U.S. place on the newest Turkish-Armenian talks. “That is one thing that the Secretary [of State] is deeply engaged in and we’re dedicated to,” he mentioned in response with out providing additional detailed feedback.
