Tert.am -- It’s necessary to ratify and implement the Protocols signed between Armenia and Turkey, and establishing relations must continue without connecting it with any other process, said Assistant Secretary at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon, during a Washington press conference, reports CNN Turk.

The U.S. Assistant State Secretary, noting that normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey and opening of the border will contribute to the establishment of peace and stability in the region, stated that “We believe that that process has to continue, independent of other matters.”

Gordon also stated that the U.S. is going to continue maintaining contacts with both Armenian and Turkish authorities in this process.

Earlier, Gordon had said that the U.S. views the Armenian Constitutional Court’s ruling as a positive step forward in the ratification process of the Protocols.

“The court decision permits the protocols, as they were negotiated and signed, to move forward towards parliamentary ratification, and does not appear to limit or qualify them in any way,” he said.