ANKARA (News.az)-Azerbaijan is a "strategically important country for the United States," the US Ambassador to Turkey said Monday in a televised interview with Haber Turk TV.

In a move to keep foreign nationals out of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the Azerbaijani government is compiling lists of foreigners who have visited the country and foreign organisations that work with Karabakh's government, the Bakililar news service reported on July 28.