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Azerbaijan is dissatisfied with the United States' role in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk group, Novosti-Azerbaijan quoted a presidential administration official as saying on Thursday.
"We say this openly and think this first of all is because of the United States' position of indifference over the Karabakh conflict," Ali Gasanov told journalists.
Gasanov said that the current U.S. goal in the Azeri-Armenian conflict is to save Armenia from an economic crisis by rendering pressure on neighboring countries like Turkey and demanding them to set up normal social economical and political relations with Armenia.
"Azerbaijan has more than once brought up the issue on the liberation of its territories. But some U.S. authorities under Armenian influence swing their neutral position in the direction of Armenia's interests," he said.
"If the U.S. really wants to have peace in the region, to solve the Karabakh issue, to improve the economic situation in Armenia and its joining transnational projects, then it should make Armenia stop its occupation policy," Novosti-Azerbaijan quoted Gasanov as saying.
A long-standing dispute over Nagorny Karabakh, a breakaway region inside Azerbaijan with a predominantly ethnic Armenian population, has been a sticking point in relations between the two South Caucasus states.
A fragile ceasefire has been in place in the region since a brutal war between the two countries over the disputed enclave in early 1990s, which claimed more than 30,000 lives on both sides. Karabakh has since remained under Armenian control.
Baku has fiercely opposed any decision on Karabakh that could be interpreted as giving the region independence from Azerbaijan.
RIA Novosti
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