Azerbaijan is an important partner of the United States in region - Assistant Secretary
Azerbaijan is an important partner of the United States on regional security, especially counterterrorism, Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon said in his statement on US foreign policy.
He mentioned role of Azerbaijan in helping US European allies in diversification their supplies of natural gas, and volume of daily oil export of Azerbaijan to global markets via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, free from geographic chokepoints (such as the Turkish Straits and the Straits of Hormuz) and from monopolistic pressures.
Assistant Secretary also noted that the United States has helped generate new progress toward a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through organization of series of discussions between Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders.
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