The South Caucasus region is in a transitional phase, and the US should continue to be engaged in regional processes.

Paul Stronski, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank, told about the above-said to the Voice of America Armenian Service, reflecting on this think tank’s latest report on US policy in South Caucasus.

This report concludes that even though the US has important interests in the region, they are not primary interests for the country.

As per Stronski, maintaining stability and preservation of the independence and sovereignty of the three South Caucasus countries (Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan) is among the primary American interests in the region.

According to the analyst, Russian and American interests in the South Caucasus partly coincide, since Russia is interested in some instability to maintain its influence over the countries. But he set aside the Karabakh conflict, where, in his view, the Russian-American joint efforts to resolve this conflict are effective.

Paul Stronski added that the US should encourage the deepening of the South Caucasus countries’ ties with Europe. In this context, he underscored the resumption of Armenia-European Union talks.