The United States continues to be involved in the OSCE Minsk Group as a Co-Chair country and urges the conflicting parties to refrain from statements that might increase tension in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process. US State Department Acting Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner said as much during a US State Department daily press briefing yesterday.<\/p>\n
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A journalist asked Toner whether he had a response to the “seeming elevation of the rhetoric for some reason in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue,” adding that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was recently “threatening to resolve the issue once and for all through force.” <\/p>\n
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I just wonder if you had any guidance on that or if you could get some.<\/p>\n
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“I’m not up to speed on those comments. I know that we remain engaged in the Minsk process and \u2014 but I don’t have the latest on that. I would just urge everyone to \u2014 obviously, to remain in dialogue and avoid any rhetoric that would add to tensions,” responded Toner.<\/p>\n
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Since the 90s, the OSCE Minsk Process and Minsk Group have been attempting to find a political solution to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a de-facto independent state that broke away from Azerbaijan after a bloody war in the 1990s and is populated mainly by ethnic Armenians, by providing a framework for conflict resolution, obtaining agreement by the conflicting parties to the cessation of armed conflict and promoting the peace process. The Minsk Group is comprised of Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke (USA), Bernard Fassier (France) and Igor Popov (Russian Federation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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