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BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 8. US State
Department’s Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations Louis Bono
visited Baku this week to underscore US support for advancing peace
between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the US Embassy in Baku told
Trend.
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US State
Department said during a briefing on November 7 that peace between
Azerbaijan and Armenia continues to be a priority for the US.
“Outside of everything that of course is going on in the world
that often sometimes takes up a lot of the oxygen in this room,
peace between those two countries continues to be a priority for
us, for Secretary Blinken, and it’s something that the department
will continue to engage towards,” he said.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan held bilateral talks on June 27-29
at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in
Arlington, Virginia.
They met with US Secretary Antony Blinken and Assistant to the
President and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in
Washington.
The ministers and their teams continued working on the draft
bilateral peace agreement. They reached an agreement on additional
articles and achieved mutual understanding on the draft agreement,
meanwhile acknowledging that the positions on some key issues
require further work.
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