YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS. The United States is engaging in diplomatic outreach after Azerbaijan launched an attack on Nagorno-Karabakh which it falsely describes as an “anti-terrorist operation.”
US State Department officials told Reuters that the incident was particularly dangerous and the US is engaging in diplomatic outreach.
A senior U.S. State Department official told Reuters that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was likely to get involved in the next 24 hours in the diplomatic engagement already under way on the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
A second senior State Department official said the incident overnight was “particularly egregious and particularly dangerous, so we’ll obviously be in touch with all sides.”
“It’s concerning that this happened overnight, especially because we did see some progress yesterday with shipments moving through the Lachin corridor,” the first official said.