Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday confirmed that the United States is aware of Turkey’s involvement in the Karabakh conflict, saying Ankara is Ankara is “reinforcing” Azerbaijan.
In his Wednesday morning briefing, Pompeo said he has discussed the matter with President Donald Trump.
“I don’t want to get into the conversations that are ongoing and continue to be ongoing, but suffice it to say I spoke to President Trump about this just this morning briefly,” said Pompeo.
“We are watching what’s taking place there. We have joined our European partners and, frankly, many countries around the world to ask that there be a ceasefire as a beginning of a solution to the conflict,” Pompeo said.
“We have watched the reporting of civilians deaths. We have watched Turkey begin to reinforce Azerbaijan,” added Pompeo. “We have asked every international player to stay out of the region, not to continue to reinforce trouble. We are working to deliver that,” added Pompeo.
The Secretary of State said the U.S. is using its “diplomatic toolkit to try to achieve an outcome that is a solution based on international law.”
“It’s pretty straightforward, we are focused on it. We are paying a great deal of attention to it, and we’ve frankly done some work that I think increases the likelihood that the objectives that I just identified actually take place,” he added.
In a Twitter post on Tuesday, Pompeo offered the same false-parity that has been emanating from the State Department for 30 years now in reference to the Karabakh conflict.
“The United States calls on Azerbaijan and Armenia to implement their commitments to a ceasefire as agreed and cease targeting civilian areas, such as Ganja and Stepanakert. We deplore the loss of human life and remain committed to a peaceful settlement,” said Pompeo on Twitter, referring first to Azerbaijan’s second largest city, which was hit by one bomb last week and then Stepanakert, Artsakh’s capital, which has been under continuous shelling by Azerbaijan for more than week.
“We know Turkey is reinforcing Azeribaboonjan and continue to monitor the situation”, so basically you are tacitly approving Turkey’s behavior and may actually be supporting it?
“We’ve asked international players to stay out of conflict” except Turkey of course, so Russia and Iran should mind their own business while US continues to green light Turkey. Okay we get it now.
Tesak spyurk jan? Lav lsek u nayek vor apagayum che porcek Rusin kotel yev nuyn jamin Miyacial Nahangneri kamak mtnel. Esi meh hargeli miacial nahangneri patasxenen e.
Yev ays paterazmic heto, huysov verchapes Hye joxovurte mart ke darna, yev mankaoartezi yev asphalt janabar sarkelu poxaren, pox ge vatni rasmakan banakin hzoracnelu vra.
Yerp piti mer vochxar spyurke ira yerazic artnana?!?!
This is an insane and unnecessary war by Russia to try to teach Armenia a lesson just because Pashinyan has had a few more contacts with the West.
This is a breach of the Armenian – Russian mutual defense treaty. Putin has gone way too far.
Armenians will learn from this and Russia will suffer.