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YEREVAN, JUNE 28, ARMENPRESS. On June 28, Armenian FM Ararat Mirzoyan and United States national security advisor to President Joe Biden met in the US capital, Washington. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov was also present at the meeting.

As ARMENPRESS was informed from MFA Armenia, in the context of achieving long-term peace and stability in the South Caucasus, Ararat Mirzoyan emphasized the importance of ensuring maximum certainty in the delimitation process based on the Alma-Ata Declaration and the 1975 map, as well as withdrawal of troops. The issue of unblocking regional infrastructures was also addressed, emphasizing the absence of an alternative to preserving the principles of sovereignty, jurisdiction, equality and reciprocity.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan once again emphasized the importance of properly addressing the rights and security issues of the people of Nagorno Karabakh. Referring to another aggressive operation of Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, as a result of which the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army suffered four casualties on June 28, Minister Mirzoyan stressed that such actions are aimed at disrupting the efforts aimed at the negotiation process, and emphasized the imperative of excluding the use of force or the threat of force. Minister Mirzoyan emphasized that this action takes place in parallel with the humanitarian crisis created in NK as a result of the illegal blocking of the Lachin Corridor, as well as the deliberate disruption of gas and electricity supply to NK by Azerbaijan, which is aimed at subjecting Nagorno Karabakh to ethnic cleansing.