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US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Morningstar has said peace is the only answer to the long-standing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the United States will continue working with the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia to make progress in its settlement.

Morningstar told journalists in Baku on Friday that he would also work with the OSCE Minsk Group negotiators to achieve progress in the ongoing peace negotiations.

"We will never give up because peace is the only answer with respect to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," he said.

Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a precarious cease-fire in 1994. Armenian armed forces have since occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno Karabakh, defying international calls and UN resolutions. Peace talks, brokered by the United States, Russia and France through the OSCE Minsk Group, have been largely fruitless so far.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on a pullout from Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven surrounding regions.