Washington seeks renewed Baku-Yerevan dialogue

US State Department Spokesman Ned Price has said that Washington wants to resume a dialogue between Baku and Yerevan.

He made the remarks at a regular briefing on January 18 to comment on whether a new round of negotiations is expected, Caliber.Az reports, citing the official website of the US State Department.

"We’re going to do what is ultimately most helpful. And at the end of last year, there were a couple of meetings that the Secretary [of State] chaired between his counterparts, a trilateral meeting between Armenia, and Azerbaijan, with Secretary Blinken in the middle. We did that at Blair House. We did that in New York. Of course, we’ve seen setbacks when it comes to Nagorno-Karabakh of late. We want to see constructive dialogue put back on track. We stand ready to engage bilaterally. We stand ready to engage with and through partners, through the OSCE or, if and when appropriate, trilaterally, as we have done in the past," he said.

Price noted that Blinken had an opportunity on January 18 to speak to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

"I do expect that he will have an opportunity in the coming days to speak to [Azerbaijani] President [Ilham] Aliyev," the spokesman added.