ArmInfo. In my opinion, more than ever, Armenia and Azerbaijan needs our support to resolve the Karabakh conflict. In 2008-2009 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs David Merkel, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo
Last October, the United States National Security Advisor John Bolton visited the Caucasus on a regional visit. Among other issues, the diplomat discussed prospects for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict in Yerevan and Baku. After that, in January of this year, he had a telephone conversation with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"Even today I do not assess the Karabakh conflict as frozen. The situation continues to be quite unstable, as, incidentally, the risk of a conflict aggravating at any moment. In this light, the OSCE Minsk Group and the United States, as one of the co-chairs, should be steps, "he stressed.
Merkel holds that the Karabakh problem was not among the foreign policy priorities of the Barack Obama administration. And although the situation of the period of the presidency of George W. Bush was qualitatively different from Obama's legislature, all the same, not enough was done in this direction towards the resolution of Karabakh.
"In this light, in my opinion, the time has come to resolve the Karabakh conflict with more active mediation by the United States. And, in my opinion, the administration of the current President Trump, who is not yet demonstrating a special movement in this direction, should significantly intensify work on the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict," the American diplomat summed up.
Since 1992, the OSCE Minsk Group, represented by the co-chairs from Russia, the United States and France, has been involved in resolving the Karabakh conflict. Since the signing of the trilateral agreement on the establishment of a truce between the parties to the Karabakh conflict, almost a quarter of a century has passed. And all these years, surges of murders on the Line of Contact have been interspersed with negotiations towards peace. However, since the end of last year, the killings have practically stopped, and the OSCE MG mediators, Baku and Yerevan, have started talking about the need to prepare the parties to the conflict for peace.