Matthew Miller says US is serious about international mission in Artsakh

The United States is quite serious about the international mission, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a briefing on Thursday.

“We think the international mission is important because it relates to all of the other questions about humanitarian assistance, about humanitarian needs in the region. We are so serious about the international mission that the Secretary raised it in his call with President Aliyev, pressed him to support an international mission. You may have seen that the Azerbaijani Government came out yesterday and said that they do support an international mission, and in fact in their statement said one of the reasons they are supporting it is because they have been pushed to support it by the United States,” he said.

Miller confirmed that Washington was working with its allies and partners to determine the best mechanism to achieve this goal.

“We think it’s important to provide transparency and to assure that humanitarian needs are being addressed on the ground,” Miller said.

At the same time, he did not specify the countries the US was going to work with.

“I can’t preview specifics right now because it is a matter that is ongoing with a number of allies and partners in the region. Both under what auspices that mission would be launched, who would participate, what its scope would be, what it would look like – all those things are under discussion. So I don’t want to make any kind of a – I don’t want to make any kind of announcement before we’ve nailed down the details. But it is a matter we are working on,” he concluded.