USA to continue its efforts directed to regulation of NK conflict in framework of Minsk Group

YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS: USA as a Co-Chair country of OSCE Minsk Group is intended to continue works with Armenia and Azerbaijan in order to have peaceful, stable and fair settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenpress reports that such declaration made the US embassy to Azerbaijan commenting the adoption of resolution by Massachusetts House of Representatives supporting the independence of Artsakh.

In the declaration of the embassy simultaneously is stressed that the resolutions of states can not determine the foreign policy of USA but each state is free to adopt this or that resolution.

On August 6, 2012 the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusettsadopted a resolution submitted by State Representative Jonathan Hecht urging “the President and Congress of theUSAto support the self-determination and democratic independence of Nagorno-Karabakh”.

Armenpress had earlier reported that the resolution condemns the killings of Armenians inSumgait,Kirovabadand Bakuand acts of violent repression byAzerbaijanagainst the peaceful demonstrations for self-determination in Nagorno-Karabakh. The document notes that today also the “Nagorno-Karabakh’s security continues to be threatened byAzerbaijan’s hostile acts”. It praises, that despite these continuous acts of violence, the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in a popular referendum on December 10, 1991 voted in support of independence, freedom and democracy.