U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price, during a press briefing yesterday, said Washington wants to see a stable Caucasus region.

Here’s the exchange:

Q: One more Iranian, if I may. Iranian Revolutionary Guard held military exercises on border with Azerbaijan last week, which triggered some concerns in Azerbaijan. Any comment on that, please?

Price: I don’t have a particular comment on that. Of course, we want to see and we’ve – we have made clear our interest in seeing a stable Caucasus region, a region that – where we work both with Armenia and Azerbaijan to de-escalate tensions between those two countries and to work to de-escalate any broader tensions that may arise.