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US activity on Nagorno Karabakh conflict has two directions. One is delivering aid to people suffering from this conflict. And the other is the direction in which James Warlick, the US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, is working, US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Robert Cekuta said, according to the information agency APA.

“As for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, I would like to say that the existence of the conflict is indeed a deplorable fact,” Cekuta said.
Asked by an APA correspondent what criteria are taken into account when allocating financial aid and why this aid is directed to Nagorno-Karabakh only while there are so many conflict zones worldwide, the ambassador said that each conflict has its peculiarities, “In this regard, we approach issues in an individual style. We’re providing assistance Georgia, too. We just have a different approach. We likewise continue providing aid to Moldova, Africa, and Ukraine.”

In July 2015, the US Senate Appropriations Committee following the lead of Senator Mark Kirk, voiced its continued humanitarian support for direct US aid to Nagorno Karabakh, commenced in 1998. The legislators also stressed the importance of continuing and expanding demining efforts in the interior (non-border) regions of Artsakh, including in farmlands and residential areas.

Former head of Baku bureau of RFE/RL, Mirza Khazar, unmasked Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov’s lie about the US allocating aid to all the sides who had suffered from Karabakh conflict. Khazar wrote on his blog that the US Senate Appropriations Committee once again had confirmed its continued support to the direct aid to Nagorno Karabakh.

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