US believes Azerbaijan-Armenia meetings this week important

The US considers the meetings of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, organized by the US Department of State, to be important, and believes that progress will be made, US Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a regular briefing, Report informs.

“I will say that we continue to believe that peace is within reach. We’ve hosted these two parties before. The Secretary has talked to both foreign ministers on a number of occasions. We think the meetings are important this week. We think it’s important that they show progress. And so, I’m going to wait to pass judgement on what happens until these three days of meetings conclude, but we do think that peace is within reach if the two parties will put aside their differences,” he noted.

The US State Department is hosting another round of peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia. On June 27, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken held bilateral meetings with Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan.

Negotiations will last until June 29.