The United States strongly supports efforts to resolve the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh as early as possible. As a Minsk Co-Chair, we have been actively involved in the ongoing negotiations. We hope that recent discussions in Kazan between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia bear fruit. Resolution of the conflict would benefit all citizens of the region, U.S. Ambassador Julie Finley stated in her address to a special session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna on Tuesday.
Finley also reiterated U.S. support for the earliest possible resolution of the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh, over which Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a bloody war from 1990 to 1994 after the predominantly ethnic Armenian enclave attempted to break away from Soviet Azerbaijan. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Aliyev August 25, just prior to a meeting of the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Russia’s Volga River city of Kazan, to urge progress toward a settlement.
The United States strongly supports efforts to resolve the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh as early as possible. The U.S. State Department has a fact sheet available summarizing the U.S. position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
В"As a Minsk Co-Chair, we have been actively involved in the ongoing negotiations. We hope that recent discussions in Kazan between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia bear fruit. Resolution of the conflict would benefit all citizens of the region.