U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that dialogue is key to reaching a lasting peace in the South Caucasus.

Blinken on Monday, May 1 hosted peace talks with Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov at the George P. Schultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center.

“Dialogue is key to reaching a lasting peace in the South Caucasus region,” he said in a tweet after the meeting.

Azerbaijani authorities on April 23 set up a checkpoint on the only road connecting the Karabakh with Armenia. Baku also maintained that they have informed the command of the Russian peacekeepers about the installment of the checkpoint.