WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a joint call with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday, the State Department said, a week after the neighbors accused each other of violating a ceasefire that ended two days of warfare.
Blinken told Armenia’s Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijan’s Jeyhun Bayramov that Washington appreciates positive steps both sides are taking toward reaching a sustainable peace agreement, spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. He underscored that diplomacy is the only way forward, Price added.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Rami Ayyub)
