Epress.am News from Armenia
Resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the key to unlocking Turkish-Armenian relations, and consequently regional energy supplies, said Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Gordon, discussing the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative in a meeting with 27 EU Member State Political Directors in Stockholm on July 3, 2009, according to a US cable released by WikiLeaks yesterday.
On the process of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Gordon said, “The Russians have been reasonably productive on this account, but it is unclear whether they are just going through the motions or are seriously engaged, particularly as a Nagorno-Karabakh solution would facilitate a Southern Corridor gas route.”
According to the leaked US cable, EU Council Secretariat DG Robert Cooper asserted that “if the Russians really wanted to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh, they would have done so already.”