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The United States is engaging in diplomatic outreach after Azerbaijan launched "anti-terrorist activities" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, adding that the incident was particularly dangerous. A senior U.S. State Department official said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was likely to get involved in the next 24 hours in the diplomatic engagement already under way on the tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Blinken discussed the situation and stated the need for de-escalation, Interfax reported, citing the Armenian government. Azerbaijan launched military action in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a step that could...

An Armenian- American approached Vice President Joe Biden and asked what message from the Obama administration “we should be giving to our community”, Biden responded: “Tell them that it was the Armenian President that called me and said “Look, do not force this issue now while we are in negotiations. We passed. That’s passed right now, so anyway, reality has a way of intruding.” However, a spokesman for Armenian President Serzh Sarkasian has denied asking Biden not to “force” the issue of Armenian genocide while negotiations of the normalization of Turkish- American relations were in progress. Biden’s comments have since...