WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a closed-door briefing today dedicated to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

The briefing was attended by the Committee members and the OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-Chairman James Warlick,  Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) official website reports.

During the briefing, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce urged Barack Obama to join them and called on peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

“Violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region is at the highest point in decades. Just last month we heard reports of heavy weapon attacks and tank artillery fire – a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement. As Ambassador Warlick has said, this isn’t a ‘frozen conflict,’ but is a forgotten conflict – with a real risk of spinning out of control. That is why we need all snipers to be withdrawn, more international monitors to be deployed and gunfire locator systems to be put in place to increase transparency and accountability for each and every cross-boundary violation. Acts of aggression must be clearly condemned. The faster the administration can help put these in place, the quicker it can help put an end to the killing and avert war,” Ed Royce said.

As reported earlier, Congressmen Ed Royce and Eliot Engel had urged their government not to turn a blind eye to Azerbaijani aggression.