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 U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) urged the Obama Administration to speed up implementation of Royce-Engel proposals for Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) peace, during a classified briefing with Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group Co-Chairman James Warlick held, according to the website of  the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

Over a dozen U.S. House Members attended the closed-door briefing, organized by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In an official “read-out” from the meeting, Chairman Royce stated:

“Violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is at the highest point in decades. Just last month we heard reports of heavy weapon attacks and tank artillery fire – a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement. As Ambassador Warlick has said, this isn’t a ‘frozen conflict,’ but is a forgotten conflict – with a real risk of spinning out of control. That is why we need all snipers to be withdrawn, more international monitors to be deployed and gunfire locator systems to be put in place to increase transparency and accountability for each and every cross-boundary violation. Acts of aggression must be clearly condemned. The faster the administration can help put these in place, the quicker it can help put an end to the killing and avert war.”

The US Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group James Warlick for his part thanked on Twitter U.S. House Foreign  Affairs Committee and its chairman Ed Royce for hosting the meeting to discuss to the Nagorno Karabakh peace process. “We agreed to work for a settlement,” Ambassador Warlick tweeted.