Yerevan /Mediamax/. The U.S. administration continues working on the issue of Armenian POWs held in Azerbaijan, David Ignatius writes for The Washington Post.

In particular, Ignatirus writes that Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Philip Reeker raised the issue of the captives with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov during a telephone call and requested that the ICRC be allowed to visit the prisoners. The request was promptly granted.

“U.S. officials continued in the following weeks to advocate the release of detainees. “We hope to see more detainees released,” said a senior Biden administration official. “We’re not negotiating, but we’re urging them to exercise goodwill,” he said, noting that implementing the cease-fire and prisoner swaps was Russia’s responsibility,” David Ignatius writes.