Matthew Miller, US Department of State Spokesperson, referred to latest call by Secretary Antony Blinken with the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and further meetings between Armenian and Azerbaijani Forein Ministry delegations. “No meeting that has been scheduled as of yet, though we do continue to look forward to the next engagement between the ministers from both Armenia and Azerbaijan, but I don’t have any update to give”, Miller said.
Referring to the phrase “the peace is within reach,” “agreement is within reach” and a question on how to correctly translate that into Azerbaijani and Armenian, and whether to put in the time frame, which is about a month, two months, five months, Miller said: “I can’t help you with the translation, obviously, nor would I want to put a timetable on it. I will say what the – we have meant when we say it’s within reach is that they have made significant progress on a number of issues. Even in the last meeting, they narrowed the number of issues that remain unresolved. And so we think with a dwindling number of issues to resolve, the agreement’s within reach, but that involves – that of course would involve both parties being willing to compromise”.
