The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) today sharply criticized a statement issued by Presidents Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations, characterizing it as "just more of their same old, tired calls for capitulation by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, ANCA website reports.

"Presidents Obama, Sarkozy and Medvedev's statement regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process should have been a forceful condemnation of Azerbaijan's June 18th attack on Mardarkert," stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "Instead it was just more of their same old, tired calls for capitulation by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Their joint statement presents, once again, the one-sided formula in which Karabagh is pressed to make up-front, highly dangerous, and irrevocable security concessions in return for a vague and unenforceable promise that its status may be determined by an undefined process, by undetermined actors, at some unidentified point in the future.”

A July 10, 2009, statement issued by the three Presidents was nearly identical to the one issued yesterday, with a notable difference being the new accusation of "occupation" of territories.