YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 25, ARMENPRESS. The US must cooperate with Russia for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Kerry Kavano – Professor, Expert on Foreign Affairs at New York-based Council, former OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair, said in an interview with TASS, reports “Armenpress”.

He stated that an outbreak of new violence in South Caucasus may endanger Washington’s relations with Moscow, Ankara and Tehran.

“US President Donald Trump has already announced cooperating with Russia. The joint actions towards the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement can be a starting point for the further efforts of the two countries in other fields”, Kavano said.

“It can be stated that the Minsk process didn’t give any results. However the fact that in recently there had not been a large-scale conflict speaks in itself”, he said.

The expert says it is necessary to practically implement the steps on strengthening trust and security in the region which were agreed earlier, as well as including the increase of the number of OSCE observers and installing independent mechanism for investigating the incidents in the line of contact which will enable to reduce the ceasefire violation cases. “The settlement of this conflict derives from the interests of all”, he said.