“I have not seen such reports,” he told reporters in Baku Sept. 15.
Cekuta pointed out that the US position on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not changed.
“We support the OSCE Minsk Group’s activity,” said the ambassador, recalling that the last week the US Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick discussed with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the conflict’s resolution.
“We continue thinking that this conflict needs to be resolved, that there has to be a settlement found, that the sides need to come together for stability and wellbeing of everyone in the region,” added Cekuta. “We continue to work with sides.”
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
US position on Karabakh conflict not changed - Cekuta
16 September 2016
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Reports about the support from the US to Armenia sound strange, says the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Robert Cekuta.
