Us Will Continue To Work With Azerbaijan, Armenia To Pursue Peace Agreement - State Department
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.7. The US will continue
to work with Azerbaijan, Armenia to pursue a peace agreement, US
State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller said during a briefing on
Aug.7, trend reports.
"We have been engaged directly with those countries. Special
Envoy Bono traveled to the region last week and engaged directly
with them. And we believe that despite any comments from other
countries, who are not a party to this matter, an agreement remains
within reach, and we will continue to work with them to pursue it,"
he explained.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan held bilateral talks on
June 27-29 at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs
Training Center in Arlington, Virginia.
They met with US Secretary Anthony Blinken and
Assistant to the President and National Security Adviser Jake
Sullivan in Washington.
The ministers and their teams continued progress on
the draft bilateral Agreement on Peace and Establishment of
Interstate Relations. They reached an agreement on additional
articles and achieved mutual understanding on the draft agreement,
meanwhile acknowledging that the positions on some key issues
require further work.
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