U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed the resolution on recognition of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire in the course of their phone conversation.

Turkish FM expressed hope that at his regular April 24 speech Barack Obama will consider Ankara’s stance on the matter. According to him, third-country-adopted resolutions judging the history, negatively affects the Armenia-Turkey normalization process.

“The process that will positively affect both Armenia-Turkey relations and Caucasian region should not suffer for settling internal political accounts,” Davutoglu noted.

“Secretary Clinton stated that she understood Minister Davutoğlu’s concerns, and stressed that the US administration is opposed both to the Committee’s decision and to further action on it in the US House of Representatives,” reads the statement by Turkish Foreign Ministry.

March 4, the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted the resolution on Armenian Genocide and March 11- the Swedish Parliament. Turkey recalled its Ambassadors to the U.S and Sweden as a sign of protest.

L.A.