U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Philip Gordon said that the Karabakh conflict is considered to be frozen, but ceasefire violations are often recorded on the contact line.

Due to incorrect calculations, the conflict may stop being frozen and a similar scenario should be prevented, Gordon said on the sidelines of GLOBSEC 2011 regional security conference in Bratislava.

According to him, the problem is not in the OSCE Minsk Group activity. “If they know there is an alternative format, they would be ready to discuss it,” said Gordon.

According to him, the U.S. thinks that the OSCE Minsk Group does a good job and exerts huge efforts to overcome the discrepancies between the parties to the conflict.