US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Armenia in the end of the current year, US Ambassador John Heffern told Armenpress news agency.

“Bilateral relations [between Armenia and the US], in terms of diplomacy, perhaps can be judged by looking at the level of high-level mutual visits.

“At the end of last year, when [Armenian] Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met with Secretary of State John Kerry, he [i.e., Kerry] expressed a desire to visit Armenia, and we hope that he will visit Armenia in the end of the current year,” the ambassador said.

Heffern added, however, that the details of Kerry’s visit are yet unknown.

“State Secretary Kerry supports regional issues, he wants a normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey, and, naturally, the visit will be regional,” John Heffern stated, in particular.