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BAKU – A settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh remains a priority for the United States government, US Ambassador in Baku Matthew Bryza has said.

Addressing an event in a Baku settlement conducted by US volunteers to mark the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S., Bryza said he was witnessing progress in peace talks brokered by the OSCE Minsk Group to reach a peaceful and fair solution of the long-standing dispute.

The ambassador also noted that since 2001, September 11 has been marked as the National Day of Service and Remembrance to commemorate the victims of the terror attacks.

The volunteers donated clothes and books to the displaced persons from Nagorno Karabakh residing in the Jeyranbatan settlement. Moreover, they carried out some repair work and cleaning jointly with local residents.

Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced up to a million Azerbaijanis. About 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory, including the Nagorno Karabakh region, has been under the occupation of Armenian armed forces since a fragile ceasefire was signed in 1994. Peace talks, brokered by the U.S., Russia and France through the Minsk Group, have been largely fruitless so far.