US State Department urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to reduce tensions

The US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price made a statement when answering the question about the steps taken by official Washington for the normalization of Azerbaijan-Armenia relations, Report informs.

"We have consistently focused on this challenge, on the need to de-escalate tensions, on the need to set these two countries on the path to a lasting, comprehensive settlement. We, of course, brought the two countries together at the foreign minister level here in Washington. We did that in New York on the margins of the UN General Assembly. And Phil Reeker, our senior advisor, has been actively engaged with officials in both countries to see to it that we are doing everything we can and, most importantly, that these two countries are doing everything they can to see to it that these tensions are de-escalated," he said.