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The U.S. will continue to cooperate with Russia on a number of issues, including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, U.S. State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said at a daily press briefing on Wednesday, Trend news agency reported.

"Russia has long been a partner of the United States on a number of issues where we can work together," she said. "I think our overall approach remains to try to cooperate with Russia as much as we can on as many issues as we can that we share, whether they're bilateral issues, whether they're regional issues like Nagorno-Karabakh, or whether they're global issues like Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, et cetera."

The Karabakh conflict emerged over Armenia's territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since 1994, but long-standing efforts by US, Russian and French mediators have been largely fruitless so far. Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on its pullout from the neighboring country's territories.