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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Wednesday that Russia and Turkey will work in Karabakh through a monitoring center on Azerbaijani soil.
“No, there was no talk of joint peacekeeping forces, this issue was not discussed at all,” Peskov told reporters, in response to a question about what Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said about the forces of peace. Russian-Turkish joint peace.
Peskov added: “The cooperation area will be in the territory of Azerbaijan, not in Karabakh, there is talk of a monitoring center.” Peskov also indicated that the monitoring center will be on Azerbaijani lands and not on Karabakh lands. On Monday, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a ceasefire agreement in Nagorno Karabakh, and the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint declaration on a ceasefire in Karabakh.
The ceasefire declaration stipulates that the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces will stop at their current positions, and Russian peacekeepers will be deployed along the line of contact in Karabakh and the corridor connecting the Armenian lands and Karabakh. The Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh will include 1,960 soldiers, 90 armored personnel carriers and 380 pieces of military equipment. And for the administration of the peacekeeping operation, the leadership of the Russian peacekeepers will be deployed in Karabakh.
The agreement also includes the lifting of restrictions on the movement, transit and exchange of prisoners between the two parties to the conflict, and the return of the displaced to Karabakh, under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
On the basis of the tripartite agreement, Russian peacekeepers began their deployment on the union lines in the Karabakh region on Tuesday morning.
Source: Sputnik
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