U.S. remains committed to the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation at the highest level, Spokesman for the State Department Philip Crowley told NEWS.am.

“We believe that the normalization process carries important benefits for Turkey and Armenia as well as the wider Caucasus region. We continue to urge both sides to keep the door open to pursuing efforts at reconciliation and normalization,” he said.

Commenting on expectations from the OSCE summit in Astana in the perspective of Karabakh conflict settlement, Crowley said he “would not speculate at this point on a specific outcome at the OSCE summit”.

As NEWS.am reported earlier, in October 2009 Armenian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandian and Ahmet Davutoglu signed protocols on establishment of diplomatic relations and development of bilateral relations.

They had to be ratified by the countries’ parliaments, but the Turkish side put forward resolution of the Karabakh conflict as a precondition. In April 2010 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan suspended the ratification in the Armenian parliament.