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Russian military in Nagorno-Karabakh
The Armenian leader stated that he refused to hand over Shushi. In his opinion, if this happened, Baku would raise new demands.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shared his version of the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the signing of a trilateral agreement on an armistice in Nagorno-Karabakh. He posted it on his Facebook page on November 29.
According to Pashinyan, on October 19, the president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Arayik Harutyunyan, called him and told him that the war must stop.
Harutyutyan noted that former Karabakh leaders Arkady Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan and former Armenian presidents Robert Kocharian, Serzh Sargsyan and Levon Ter-Petrosyan share this view.
After that, Pashinyan, according to him, called Putin and said that it was necessary to deploy Russian peacekeepers “along the former border of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region (NKAO) and the Lachin corridor.”
The Russian president agreed, and Pashinyan was supposed to call again after the discussions, the publication says.
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According to Pashinyan, the next day, Putin called and said that Aliyev agreed, but that peacekeepers should not be deployed along the NKAO line, but on the actual line of contact, as the Azerbaijani army he does not want to withdraw from the positions in Hadrut and Talish.
In addition, Armenia had to assume obligations for the return of Azerbaijanis to Shushi.
“The ceasefire became impossible, because I said that even if I agreed with the Hadrut issue, I cannot imagine the possibility of handing over Shushi to Azerbaijan. The president of Russia wondered why he was against the return of the Azerbaijanis to Shushi. When I presented my arguments, [он] He said it was logical and that he was not very aware of some of the complexities, “added Pashinyan.
According to the prime minister, with his consent, the proportion of the Azerbaijani population in Shushi would exceed 90 percent and Baku would control the road to the Nagorno-Karabakh capital, the city of Stepanakert.
Pashinyan is sure that if he agreed to “hand over Shushi”, Azerbaijan would pose a new condition: it would demand control of the Karmir Shuka-Shushi highway.
On November 23, the Armenian government published a list of settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh that are under the control of Azerbaijan according to the signed declaration on the cessation of hostilities.
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