As a fragile cease-fire holds, U.S. National Security Advisor on Tuesday met with Azerbaijani presidential adviser Hikmet Hajiyev and the secretary of Armenia's National Security Council Armen Grigoryan in Washington D.C. "for direct and constructive talks" as Jake Sullivan put it, TURAN's U.S. correspondent reports.
"We discussed the importance of avoiding further violence and pursuing time-bound and focused negotiations," Sullivan noted in a tweet.
"We also identified concrete steps forward in support of a stable and lasting peace," he added.
The White House provided no further details.
The meeting just days after the foreign ministers’ face-to-face dialogue in New York. The U.S,. which facilitated the meeting, had urged the sides to "meet again" by the end of the month.
Alex Raufoglu
Washington D.C.
Politics
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