Secretary Clinton in Europe
Continuing the Administration’s efforts to increase global engagement, especially in conflict regions, Secretary Clinton has been in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region since Thursday, visiting allies and reassuring them of U.S. support. Clinton’s trip includes stops in Georgia and Ukraine, as well as in Armenia and Azerbaijan, where tensions have risen in recent months amid stalled negotiations over the status of the Armenian-backed breakaway region of Nagorny-Karabakh, where an estimated 30,000 people were killed in fighting in the early 1990s. While in Armenia on July 4, Secretary Clinton urged the two nations to come to a mutual agreement to end the long-simmering conflict.
