U.S. CONCERNED ABOUT INCIDENT IN KARABAKH

The United States regrets for the skirmish in Nagorno Karabakh, said Tom Casey, the State Department’s Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. “We talked about this a little bit this morning. We regret that there was a violation of the ceasefire along the dividing line in Nagorno Karabakh. We’ve expressed to both sides, both directly from Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Matt Bryza with folks in Baku as well as through a phone call he’s had with the Armenian Foreign Minister our concern about this. We think it’s important that there be no further violations and it just points out the need for the two parties to work together with the Minsk Group to be able to come up with a diplomatic resolution of the situation,” he said. “Matt Bryza is continuing on from Baku to Armenia. He will be having meetings there. The primary focus of that and the intention of his visit there was first and foremost to see what he could do to help encourage and facilitate a dialogue between the government and the opposition there in light of some of the violence that we’ve seen in the post-electoral period,” he said. “One of his core messages will be to tell the Armenian government that now that the situation has calmed down, it’s very important to us to see the state of emergency lifted there. We also are concerned about the limitations and restrictions that have been placed on the media, including Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe there and we’d like to see those lifted. It’s important for not only us but for - more importantly the people of Armenia to be able, in this period, to have access to open information,” Mr Casey noted. “I’ll let them speak for themselves. Again, we’ve made our views clear. There has not been a repeat of the incident and we hope that continues,” he resumed.

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