SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to be with Prime Minister Pashinyan today. Armenia is a very highly valued partner of the United States, and we applaud and appreciate its commitment to a dignified and durable peace. Even as we discuss that and work on that, we’re also working to strengthen the relationship between our countries in a whole variety of different areas. I look forward to discussing all of that with the prime minister today. Prime Minister, welcome.
PRIME MINISTER PASHINYAN: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. It’s a pleasure to see you here in Munich. And we appreciate the dynamics that we heard in – by the delegations and (inaudible) the hope that we’ll be able to develop that further. And we established, I think, a very effective partnership, and in 2019 we started strategic planning, and this year also very important that we are looking forward to a new session of our strategic partner with a quite large agenda. And this is a really good opportunity to discuss how to make that dynamic more effective. And of course, obviously, regional issues are very important to our agenda as well. Unfortunately, now we have a new phase of tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Essentially we had new escalation, and with the casualties – Armenian service member killed in the border – state border with Azerbaijan. And it is also a situation that I’d like to discuss with you. Thank you.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much.
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