In Armenia, Nancy Pelosi condemns ‘unlawful’ assaults by Azerbaijan | World News

US Home of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday strongly condemned what she stated have been "unlawful" border assaults by Azerbaijan on Armenia that triggered clashes by which greater than 200 folks have been killed.

Pelosi stated her journey to Armenia had explicit significance following the "unlawful and lethal assaults by Azerbaijan" on Armenia.

"We strongly condemn these assaults," Pelosi stated. She stated it was clear that the border combating was triggered by Azeri assaults on Armenia.

Pelosi, who arrived in Yerevan on Saturday for a three-day go to, is the highest-ranking US official to journey to Armenia for the reason that tiny nation gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars -- within the Nineties and in 2020 -- over the contested area of Nagorno-Karabakh an Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan.

Along with France and Russia, the US co-chairs the Minsk Group of mediators, which had led decades-long peace talks between Baku and Yerevan beneath the aegis of the Organisation for Safety and Cooperation in Europe.

Analysts have stated the latest combating has largely undone Western efforts to deliver Baku and Yerevan nearer to a peace deal.

The six-weeks warfare in 2020 claimed the lives of greater than 6,500 troops from each side and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire.

Beneath the deal, Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had managed for many years, and Moscow deployed about 2,000 Russian peacekeepers to supervise the delicate truce.

Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The following battle claimed round 30,000 lives.