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The Kremlin said today, Thursday, that the peacekeepers to be deployed in the Narguni Karabakh region will be only Russian, noting that coordination with Turkey will take place through a center in Azerbaijan, while the foreign minister of Turkey warned Armenia of any violation of the Karabakh agreement.
The Kremlin added that Moscow and Ankara could not discuss the issue of the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers in Karabakh without the consent of Baku and Yerevan.
For his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said US and French officials are soon discussing in Moscow arrangements related to the implementation of the Karabakh accord.
US and French officials to discuss the Karabakh agreement in Moscow, AnatoliaAgreement and details
These events come 3 days after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Azerbaijan and Armenia reached an agreement establishing a ceasefire in the disputed Karabakh region, with the forces of the two countries stationed in their current areas of control. .
For his part, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared that the agreement was a victory for his country and that the victories achieved by the army forced the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, to accept the agreement involuntarily.
Aliyev stated that the agreement provides for Azerbaijan to regain control of 3 provinces that were under Armenian control.
In turn, Pashinyan commented on the agreement saying that he had no choice but to sign, and the decision he made was based on the assessment of people who know the military reality on the ground.
Azeri region
In recent developments, the Azerbaijan News Agency quoted Muharram Aliyev, assistant to the Azerbaijani president for Military Affairs, as saying that Karabakh will be like any other Azerbaijani region and will not enjoy autonomy.
He added that displaced Azeris will return to their homes in the region, indicating that the official Azerbaijani currency will be used in those areas.
The Azerbaijani authorities had declared that one million people had been displaced from their homes since the 1990s, as well as some 20 thousand people killed in military operations, while the number of missing Azeris was estimated at 4 thousand people.
Protests and arrests
In Armenia, authorities today arrested 10 opposition leaders for their alleged role in violent protests to denounce the signing of an agreement dedicated to Azerbaijan’s victory in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The opposition, including the leaders of Prosper Armenia and the Armenian Revolutionary Union Prosper and Tashnak, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, were arrested on charges of “illegal organization of violent mass riots”.
During the night of Monday and Tuesday, the seat of government and parliament were raided and partially looted.
During demonstrations rejecting the agreement, protesters chanted slogans against Pashinyan and accused him of surrendering and betraying his country by signing the agreement to stop the fighting in the Karabakh region and accept the handover of vast lands to those they described as the Azerbaijani enemy.
Pashinyan defended his decision, emphasizing that signing the cessation of hostilities was the only way to preserve the unilaterally declared republic in Karabakh, and that the agreement was preserved for the Armenian side unless it could be preserved if the battles continued.
In a related development, the Armenian Defense Ministry declared a no-fly zone in Armenia and the Karabakh region, with the exception of military aircraft.
Cavusoglu warned Armenia not to violate the agreement (Anatolia)Ankara’s position
Politically, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Armenia will pay the price if it violates the agreement concluded on the ceasefire in the Karabakh region.
This came at a press conference held by Cavusoglu in the Azerbaijani capital Baku on Thursday.
Cavusoglu said that the Karabakh accord bears the signature of the Prime Minister of Armenia and is therefore binding on this country and that they will pay the price if they violate the ceasefire.
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