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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that his country today participated in intense negotiations with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to address a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
A joint statement issued by the US State Department and the Armenian and Azerbaijani governments declared that a humanitarian ceasefire will begin tomorrow morning.
For its part, the Minsk group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which was formed under the leadership of France, Russia and the United States to mediate the conflict, said it will meet again on October 29 to discuss the theme of the region.
Earlier, US national security adviser Robert O’Brien told “CBS” television that “at the request of President Donald Trump, we spent the entire weekend” trying to “achieve peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.” .
During an election rally in New Hampshire, Trump praised his diplomatic efforts to bring peace to various regions of the world, before saying, “And now we have Armenia.”
Yesterday, Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met separately with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jehun Permov, and then with the Armenian Zahrab Mnatsakyanian, at the headquarters of the State Department in Washington. There was no tripartite meeting.
Russia reached an armistice between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but it quickly collapsed as a result of Turkish interventions.