The United States is not trying to impose any agreement on Azerbaijan and Armenia, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
"We provided a space for the two countries to come together... But this is not an agreement that the United States is attempting to or seeking to – or even can – impose on the two sides. What we are doing is trying to create a space and an opportunity for the two sides to come together, to identify their differences and to attempt to bridge them," he said.
Ned Price said that on November 7 the Azerbaijani and Armenian FMs were able to agree on a joint statement. "They were able to agree to continue meeting and engaging in direct dialogue and diplomacy in the weeks that follow. That, to us, is quite important," the official stressed.
"But it is not for us to prescribe what this lasting comprehensive peace between the two countries might look like. We are not presenting them with a document that is ready to sign. We are doing everything we can to help enable the diplomacy that they themselves will need to undertake – and this is not unlike our approach to a number of challenges around the world, where we’ve demonstrated the viability and the effectiveness of this model," U.S. State Department spokesman concluded.
