Biden to Pashinyan: I encourage you to finalize an agreement with  Azerbaijan this year

ArmInfo. I encourage you to finalize an agreement with Azerbaijan this year. This is stated in the letter from US President Joe Biden to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, which was delivered by the US leader's Secial assistant Michael Carpenter.

"I want to assure you that the United States stands ready to support a durable and dignified peace agreement that would finally put to rest centuries of conflict.  A peace agreement that safeguards Armenia's unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity would not only provide security and stability for the Armenian people. It would transform the entire South Caucasus region," Biden noted. He stressed that finalizing the remaining articles of the peace agreement will require persistence, ingenuity, and compromise. "But putting patriotism above politics, you have courageously and consistently chosen the path to peace, and I encourage you to finalize an agreement this year," he wrote.

Biden said his administration is ready to take bold initiatives that would help pave the way for peace. In this regard, the US President informed of his request to Michael Carpenter to brief the Armenian Prime Minister on some of the steps the US would like to take and to receive Armenia's feedback on discussions with Azerbaijan.

"As we were reminded last month at the UN General Assembly in New York, now is the moment to recommit to the UN Charter and its fundamental principles of peace. A brighter future is within reach, and I look forward to working with you to seize it," the US President concluded.