The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) 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."

“Presidents Obama, Sarkozy and Medvedev's statement regarding the Nagorno Karabakh peace process should have been a forceful condemnation of Azerbaijan's June 18 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 Karabakh 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.”

“The statement is made all the more offensive given their patently false and counter-productive charges regarding the ‘occupation’ of territory," Hamparian concluded.