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Azerbaijan, U.S. mull Karabakh peace deal, regional situation

16 March 2021 16:00 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan, U.S. mull Karabakh peace deal, regional situation

By Vafa Ismayilova

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker have discussed the implementation of the November 10 Karabakh peace deal in a phone conversation, the ministry reported on March 15.

Bayramov and Reeker also discussed the regional situation and the unblocking of the transport and communication routes.

Moreover, the sides focused on other issues of mutual interest during the phone conversation.

A Moscow-brokered ceasefire deal that Baku and Yerevan signed on November 10 brought an end to six weeks of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani army declared a victory against the Armenian troops. The signed agreement obliged Armenia to withdraw its troops from the Azerbaijani lands that it has occupied since the early 1990s.

On January 11, the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian leaders signed the second statement since the end of the 44-day war. The newly-signed statement is set to implement clause 9 of the November 2020 statement related to the unblocking of all economic and transport communications in the region.

It should be noted that U.S. Ambassador Earle Litzenberger on January 27 congratulated Azerbaijan on the restoration of its territorial integrity and expressed the U.S. readiness to participate in the restoration of the lands liberated from Armenia's occupation.

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