US Believes 2006 Crucial for Karabakh Conflict

The US believes that 2006 will be crucial year for the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Reno Harnish said. In his words, the US, as an OSCE Minsk group co-chair has always supported the talks between the heads of states and foreign ministers of the conflicting parties and will continue its role of the mediator in the conflict. “We support the Azerbaijani and Armenian efforts aimed at peaceful resolution of the conflict,” the Ambassador said. Commenting on the US State Department advising its citizens to avoid visiting the uncontrolled territories for their own safety, he added that US has always admitted that “more than 16% of the Azerbaijani territory are beyond the governmental control and human rights matters on these territories cannot be controlled by Azerbaijan,” Trend reports.