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YEREVAN, MARCH 10, ARMENPRESS. There’s always been urgency to achieve peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the United States State Department said on March 9, describing the situation as “delicate”.
“There’s always been urgency with this,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said at a press briefing. “And there’s been urgency because this is a delicate situation.”
Price was asked to comment on the U.S. intelligence report which predicts tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the absence of a peace treaty and how much urgency the report adds on in terms of the US efforts to bring about peace.
“It’s a situation that is far too prone to violence, as we’ve seen in recent days in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and it is a longstanding conflict that the United States would like to do everything we can to support its resolution. We’re going to continue to do that by working bilaterally with these countries, trilaterally with Armenia and Azerbaijan, supporting their own efforts at dialogue and diplomacy, but also through all appropriate mechanisms to help these countries themselves conduct the diplomacy and reach the agreements that we hope that they will be able to make,” Price added.