Canada call on all sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to show restraint and immediately return to a ceasefire, Stéphane Dion, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, said in a statement.

“Canada is concerned by the recent escalation of violence between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh,” Dion’s statement reads. “We call on all sides to show restraint, immediately return to a true ceasefire, and actively resume dialogue within the framework of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group. Canada firmly believes that there is no alternative to a peaceful, negotiated solution to this conflict.”