Washington calls on Karabakh conflict sides to work on peaceful solution
The United States urged both sides of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to work together towards a comprehensive peaceful solution.
U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Robert Cekuta announced about this while talking to reporters on April 27 in Baku.
"We don't see military solution to accomplish anything," said Cekuta, adding that as the OSCE Minsk Group's co-chair, the U.S. will work with the conflict parties to help achieve a comprehensive peaceful solution.
The ambassador also called on the conflict parties to adhere to ceasefire.
Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions of Azerbaijan have been under the control of the Armenian military and separatists since a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended in 1994. Over 20 years of negotiations have brought little progress in resolving the conflict, though a fragile truce has been in place.
Baku, which has suffered from Yerevan's aggressive policy for more than two decades, has repeatedly stated that the presence of the Armenian Armed Forces in the occupied territories is a major obstacle to the settlement of the conflict and threat to the regional stability.
Despite the fact that the UN Security Council adopted four resolutions (822, 853, 874 and 884) demanding the Armenian troops to withdraw from Azerbaijan's occupied territories, they were ignored and have not been implemented by Yerevan yet.
Although the OSCE Minsk Group, which is in charge of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as other international institutions have repeatedly made statements on the conflict resolution, all efforts ended without any result.
Azerbaijan has been and remains committed to the peaceful negotiated solution to the conflict.
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