At the gravesite of the United States’ 28th President Woodrow Wilson at the Washington Cathedral, Washington DC, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan stated that Armenia would not allow Turkey to speak the language of preconditions while talking to Armenia and Armenians.

“We are not going to make the fact of the Armenian Genocide a matter of review in any format, or to pretend as if we believe that Turkey may have a positive role in the negotiation process over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. Any fresh foreign policy advance is subject to ordeals, because we are passing through an un-trodden path. I am sure that Armenia will pass this exam with credit, too,” Sargsyan stated Monday in Washington DC, where he arrived to participate in the Global Nuclear Security Summit.

Before laying a wreath at the tomb of Wilson (who as president of the US, in 1913-1921, advocated an independent Armenia that included Armenian provinces of the Ottoman Empire), Sargsyan met Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and late in the evening he had a 45-minute-long meeting with his American counterpart Barack Obama.

The two presidents discussed the development prospects of the Armenian-American bilateral relations, as well as touched upon the process of the Armenian-Turkish normalization, exchanged thoughts about regional developments and the current phase of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

According to political analyst Yervand Bozoyan, the United States had secured the participation of the heads of Armenia and Turkey in the Global Nuclear Security Summit in order to prevent the suspension of the Armenian-Turkish protocols on normalization. Like many others, Bozoyan also believes Obama will not use the word Genocide in describing the Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians in his annual April 24 address.

“The United States intentionally has not invited Azerbaijan so as to neutralize its factor in the protocols ratification process, because there was an opinion that Armenia and Turkey were ready to ratify the protocols, however, Azerbaijan raised obstacles at the last moment,” Bozoyan told ArmeniaNow.

Meanwhile, Edward Sharmazanov, the spokesman for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), speaking about the Sargsyan-Erdogan meeting, said that ahead of April 24, the tone of Turkey’s political authorities and their rhetoric have changed considerably.

“They (Turkey) have already announced that they are ready to ratify the protocols, that they will not freeze them, and so on, so forth,” Sharmazanov said.