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Ambassador Gilmore: Attention is paid to challenges with Armenian-Azerbaijani issue

Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict Materials 16 July 2020 21:53 (UTC +04:00)
Ambassador Gilmore: Attention is paid to challenges with Armenian-Azerbaijani issue

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 16

By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:

Attention is being paid to the challenges that are being faced right now with the Armenian-Azerbaijani issue, US Ambassador to OSCE James S. Gilmore said in a statement, Trend reports.

“The Minsk Group Co-Chairs: Russian Federation, the United States, and France, are active, that they are participating. The United States is speaking here today strictly in our national capacity, not on behalf of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, from whom we have already heard in one capacity or another.

“I want to make it clear that attention is being paid to the challenges that are being faced right now with the Armenian-Azerbaijani issue. Yesterday, there was a press statement issued by the Co-Chairs that welcomed the decrease in hostilities at that time and appealed to both sides to make every effort to continue de-escalation.

“The Co-Chairs also urged the sides to refrain from inflammatory rhetoric and any attempts to change the situation on the ground.

“I wanted to make all the countries assembled here today aware of the contents of their press release.

“In addition, I wish to simply state that yesterday the three Permanent Representatives of France, the United States, and the Russian Federation, along with other members of the Minsk Group, were briefed in our national capacities by the Co-Chairs.

“At that time, I, in my individual capacity, stated that it was important for the Co-Chairs to be transparent and active, and to be in a position to aid in mediation and response, if that occasion presented itself in accordance with the Minsk process.

“In the past two days, both the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Morgan Ortagus, the Spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, have made statements in which the United States condemned in the strongest terms the violence along the border and urged the sides to stop using force immediately and to strictly adhere to the ceasefire.

“The United States is strongly committed to helping the sides achieve a lasting peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and we will remain active in efforts to accomplish that goal,” Ambassador Gilmore said.

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