In a June 23 telephone interview with RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, who was recently named as the U.S. co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, listed several of the basic points contained in the so-called framework agreement for a solution to the Karabakh conflict currently being discussed by the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents. Those points include the withdrawal of Armenian forces from occupied Azerbaijani territory; the deployment of international peacekeepers in the conflict zone; the normalization of political and economic relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan; international economic aid for the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; and a referendum at some subsequent unspecified date on that territory\'s status. Bryza did not specify which of those points has deadlocked the ongoing peace process. He added that \"we would very much encourage the presidents to accept this framework,\" but acknowledged that doing so \"requires a lot of political courage.\" (RFE/RL)