During a visit to the United States, AFR Dashnaktsutyun member Armen Rustamyan briefed on the party's position on the Armenian-Turkish protocols to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon.

"I reminded that the normalization of Armenians-Turkish relations should take place without preconditions and within reasonable terms," Rustamyan told reporters in Yerevan.

"The U.S. officials emphasized that that the Armenian-Turkish dialogue must not be linked to Karabakh," he added.