„This is an issue that we're continuing to pay close attention to. It's something that not just the secretary, but Assistant Secretary O'Brien as well as senior coordinator Bono are continuing to focus on engaging with appropriate interlocutors“, Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US State Department explained.
The US State Department reacted to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's remarks regarding the urgency of border demarcation with Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US State Department said during a briefing that the US continues to pay close attention to this issue.
„This is an issue that we're continuing to pay close attention to. It's something that not just the secretary, but Assistant Secretary O'Brien as well as senior coordinator Bono are continuing to focus on engaging with appropriate interlocutors“, he explained.
Pashinyan has stated that if discussions regarding the delimitation and demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan are not initiated by the end of the week, "it could potentially lead to war".
"This means that at the end of the week there will be a war. And I know what will happen at the end of this war," he noted.
Pashinyan emphasized that Armenia should prevent a war with Azerbaijan, stressing the importance of border adjustments. He asserted that there is a genuine opportunity to commence the process of border delimitation and demarcation between the two nations.
On 7 March, the seventh meeting of the State Commission on the Delimitation of the State Border between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia and the Commission on the Delimitation of the State Border and Border Security between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan was held on the border between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mher Grigoryan.
The sides have exchanged views on delimitation issues, and have commenced the negotiations on the draft Regulation on Joint Activity of the State Commission on Delimitation of the State Border Between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia and the Commission on Delimitation of the State Border and Border Security between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, and discussed the drafts of relevant instructions on the order of delimitation works.
Source: https://en.trend.az/azerbaijan/politics/3876530.html