US should work with both Armenia and Azerbaijan to open communication action links, Cekuta says

The United States should work with both Armenia and Azerbaijan to open new transportation and communication action links across the two countries and the South Caucasus, said Robert F. Cekuta, a member of the advisory board of the Caspian Policy Center and former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, in his article headlined 'America Can Still Broker an Elusive Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace'.

"And the payoffs will be significant. Actions the United States took this past spring support this point. Following a phone call by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, a visit by the then acting head of the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and the U.S. Minsk Group co-chair helped broker an agreement for Azerbaijan to release a group of Armenian prisoners of war and for Armenia to provide Azerbaijan with maps showing where landmines were placed in the territory Armenia had occupied before Azerbaijan won it back in last year’s war. The action won appreciation by both Armenians and Azerbaijanis and was something Russia had been unable—or unwilling—to do.

(report.az)

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