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The best way for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the continuation of direct dialogue between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia and discussion of concrete proposals and attitudes on the final resolution of the conflict.

U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Morningstar made remarks on December 18.

Morningstar said the meeting between Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan in early November is a very good fact. All signs give us ground to say that this was a very good and constructive meeting, he added.

The presidents met in Vienna on November 19, along with the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, to eye the ways to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

Morningstar further said the U.S. as a member of the OSCE Minsk Group will continue its mediation efforts and assistance to the parties in solving the conflict.

The U.S., along with Russia and France, has long been working to broker a solution for the long-standing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the Minsk Group, but their efforts have been largely fruitless so far.

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict emerged in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since a lengthy war in the early 1990s that displaced over one million Azerbaijanis, Armenian armed forces have occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions.