Azerbaijani prisoners Dilgam Askerov and Shahbaz Guliyev, held by Armenia, should be returned, the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said at a press conference in Baku today.
She said this should be done as a humanitarian gesture. “I will make that point as well in Yerevan tomorrow,” Trend cited Nuland as saying.
Nuland also voiced US concern over the escalation of violence on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops. “We want to see an end to violence, we want the parties to come back to the negotiating table. We want to support this process,” she stressed.
