The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are likely to have another meeting in Brussels, to be organized by European Council President Charles Michel., U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press briefing on Wednesday.
Price said the two sides made significant progress over the last several months. According to Price, this has been the result of bilateral engagement with the United States, trilateral engagement with the United States, the work that the EU has done in their diplomacy.
He said the U.S. hopes to see when the parties come together in Brussels in the coming days in the talks hosted by President Michel of the EU.
'So, we hope to see a continuation of that progress. We are not being pollyannaish, but we are continuing to support this dialogue, this diplomacy, towards a comprehensive solution in every way we possibly can,' he said.
Tensions between the two ex-Soviet neighbors have escalated over a two-month blockade of the Lachin corridor, the only land route giving Armenia direct access to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but its 120,000 inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Armenians, and it broke away from Baku in a first war in the early 1990s.
Azerbaijan regained much of the lost territory in a six-week conflict in 2020 that killed thousands and was ended by a Russia-brokered truce and the dispatch of Russian peacekeepers.
