USA will continue to cooperate with Russia and France on Karabakh settlement, Bridget Brink says

ArmInfo. US will continue 

to cooperate with Russia and France on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh 

settlement, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and 

Eurasia Bridget Brink told journalists on November 17 commenting on 

the possible changes in foreign policy of the country after Donald 

Trump's election as US President. 

Brink recalled that the USA will continue with the political line of 

the incumbent President Barack Obama till January 20, 2017, followed 

by a transitional period and only after that it will become clear 

what program Trump has. 

As for the South Caucasus the USA has been assisting the region for a 

lot of years. The two Parties of the Congress-Republicans and 

Democrats have performed consistent work assisting efforts of the 

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, 

Brink noted. 

She also stated that Russia, France and the USA have worked jointly 

for many years on the Karabakh settlement problem and this work has 

been quite constructive. In this context she expressed assurance that 

cooperation to that end will continue in future. 

Touching upon the issue of status quo Brink stated that the US 

considers that status quo is not stable and April events have 

demonstrated that fact. Negotiations should be continued aimed at 

reaching comprehensive settlement of the conflict. We think that the 

settlement of the conflict will have positive impact on the entire 

region, the representative of the US Secretary of State noted. 

She also stressed that the US supports implementation of Vienna 

agreements aimed at creating mechanisms for investigating incidents 

and expanding mandate of Personal Representative of OSCE 

Chairperson-in- Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. 

Ambassador James Warlick represents the US side in this issue and we 

hope that progress will be reached in the nearest future, she noted.