U.S. consistently focused on need to de-escalate tensions between  Armenia and Azerbaijan - Ned Price 

ArmInfo. The U.S. has consistently focused on the need to de-escalate tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, on the need to set these two countries on the  path to a lasting, comprehensive settlement, Ned Price, Spokesman for  the U.S. Department of State, said at a briefing as he commented on  the latest tension involving the corridor between Azerbaijan and  Armenia.

"We have consistently focused on this challenge, on the need to  de-escalate tensions, on the need to set these two countries on the  path to a lasting, comprehensive settlement. We, of course, brought  the two countries together at the foreign minister level here in  Washington. We did that in New York on the margins of the UN General  Assembly. And Phil Reeker, our senior advisor, has been actively  engaged with officials in both countries to see to it that we are  doing everything we can and, most importantly, that these two  countries are doing everything they can to see to it that these  tensions are de-escalated," he said.