Yerevan/Mediamax/. U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch described today the statements of Baku on the intention to shoot down civil airplanes trying to land in Stepanakert Airport as “absolutely unacceptable”.

Mediamax reports that, speaking at a news conference in Information Center on NATO in Armenia today, Marie Yovanovitch reminded that U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza has already reacted to this “very serious issue”.

The American diplomat urged Azerbaijan to respect the commitments on peaceful settlement of the conflict.

Marie Yovanovitch stated that Washington has a very serious attitude towards all principles of Karabakh conflict settlement, but at the same time thinks that “the principle of non-use of force is very important, since this conflict does not have a military solution”.