BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 16. The U.S. is pleased with Azerbaijan and Armenia taking a step forward toward a peace treaty, said Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor of the U.S., Trend reports.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said Thursday that both countries have agreed to a peace agreement set to end nearly four decades of conflict between the two post-Soviet countries. The neighboring countries have been engaged in a decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,