US Makes Proposals To Azerbaijan And Armenia On Resolving Some Controversial Issues
Date
5/24/2023 3:23:46 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) The US administration presented its proposals to the leadership
of Armenia and Azerbaijan on resolving some of the issues as part
of the work on a peace agreement. Derek Hogan, First Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs,
announced this, Azernews reports, citing foreign
media outlets.
According to him, "there is progress" in the negotiation process
between the two countries. The US official has touched on some
issues the Armenian minorities living in Karabakh while speaking at
a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of
Representatives of the US Congress.
To recap, Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia Jeyhun
Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan held talks in Washington on May 1
through the mediation of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
According to Hogan, there was "intense diplomatic interaction
between the two parties" at this meeting.
"We are now looking into what can be done on the most
contentious issues," he added. "We put forward a number of
proposals, which may have provided both sides with some language to
overcome differences. They took them into consideration," - said
the State Department official.
He noted that last week he spoke with the foreign ministers of
Azerbaijan and Armenia in order to understand "in what areas we can
move forward."
Speaking about the meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol
Pashinyan and Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev, which is expected to
take place on June 1 in Chisinau with the participation of the head
of the European Council Charles Michel, French President Emmanuel
Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Hogan noted that there
will be attention "focused on what needs to be done to get things
done."
Note that last week, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
announced that on May 25 he would hold talks in Moscow with
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev through the mediation of the
President of the Russian Federation. On May 22, Pashinyan stated
that Armenia would recognize the territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan, including Karabakh where Armenian minorities live.
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