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Sputnik Alexey Nikolsky
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidency, confirmed that Russia can send its peacekeepers to the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region, only if Azerbaijan and Armenia agree.
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“The entry of the peacekeepers is only possible with the consent of both parties,” Peskov said, in an interview with the Russian channel “RBC” on Saturday night, in response to a question about the possibility that Russia take this step.
Earlier Saturday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that Armenia is ready to discuss the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the Nagorno Karabakh region within the framework of the Minsk group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. .
On the morning of September 27, armed clashes broke out on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent areas, in the most dangerous escalation between the two sides in more than 20 years.
The conflict broke out in Karabakh in 1988, in the context of the declaration of the autonomous region of its departure from the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.
In 1991, the Armenian population of the region unilaterally announced the establishment of the independent Karabakh Republic, which no state has so far recognized.
As a result of the armed conflict that lasted from 1992 to 1994, the Azerbaijani forces lost control of Karabakh and 7 adjacent districts.
Source: “RBC” + agencies
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