Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan on Friday, October 23 lauded the talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington, DC as very productive, TASS reports.

Earlier on Friday, Mnatsakanyan held meetings with Pompeo and U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Robert O'Brien to discuss the situation in Karabakh. U.S. officials held similar talks with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, however, the meetings were separate.

"We had very productive meetings in the morning, and we will continue our work together on finding the way in which we pursue very specific and very important objectives: establishing the ceasefire, going back to the peaceful resolution," he said on Friday during a video conference organized by the Atlantic Council.

Mnatsakanyan said there is "remarkable unity" among Russia, the US and France on conflict regulation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"What is very, very important is that US efforts are very much in consolidation of the joint combined work of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs: France, Russia and the United States. This is one of the formats in which these three countries have been considerably united in their effort and considerably coordinated and consolidated," he said.

"This is exactly the format in which despite the various disagreeing points of views amongst the co-chairs and many other issues on the international agenda, there has been a remarkable unity amongst the co-chairs," Mnatsakanyan stressed.

According to Foreign Minister, Armenia supports the idea of deploying peacekeeping forces to Nagorno-Karabakh. Mnatsakanyan noted that sending peacekeepers to the area could help sustain a ceasefire in the region.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said recently that Baku does not reject the idea of deploying peacekeepers in Karabakh, but that the Azeri side will present its conditions.

Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and Syrian and Libyan mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages.