Karabakh conflict not frozen at all: U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group

WASHINGTON, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS. Russia has a lot of concerns in its neighborhood and certainly it does not want to add its problems by hostilities, increasing escalations and violence in Karabakh. The U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick stated this in an interview to Voice of America. As reports “Armenpress”, James Warlick also underscored: “We have been working productively with the Russians. I work closely with the Russian Co-Chair to help to find negotiated settlement, and we will continue to do that. And I believe Russia will continue to do that. Russia has no interest in seeing renewed violence, instability so close to its borders, nor do we want to see it.”

Among other things, the U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group highlighted: “We are very concerned over situation along the line of contact, and as you see the situation is not frozen at all. Tell a mother of a dead or an injured soldier that it is a frozen conflict. It has not been frozen, and we are very concerned about the escalations. There are things that should be done about this new escalation. The first is I am very pleased to see that presidents may meet each other in Sochi today or tomorrow, and we hope they will make progress on key issues. We also hope very much that the recent threats that we have heard from some of the parties involved and also the provocative threats can end. They do not bring closer to peace.”