Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke separately with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the State Department said on Tuesday, and urged them to respect the U.S.-negotiated cease-fire that fell apart minutes after its implementation.
State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said that Pompeo spoke with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and urged both sides to respect the commitments to cease hostilities and stressed that “there is no military solution to this conflict.”
Pompeo, along with other senior Trump administration officials, over the weekend held intensive discussions in Washington with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in an effort to reinforce two previously negotiated cease-fires, which took place in Moscow and in Paris this month, to halt the fighting over the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Source: TheHill.com
