Maresca, John J. (2000) „The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh“, Opportunities missed, opportunities seized: preventive diplomacy in the post-Cold War world. Rowman & Littlefield, გვ. 78–80. ISBN978-0-8476-8559-2. „To make early negotiations possible, the United States also brokered an agreement under which both the Armenian and the Azerbaijani communities of Nagorno-Karabakh would participate separately in the Minsk Group, though not as sovereign states.“