Turkey confronts the United States, Russia and France, rejects the possibility of a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan | World

10/01/2020 World



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Presidents Vladimir Putin (Russia), Donald Trump (United States) and Emmanuel Macron (France) have joined forces to call on Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop the worst conflict in recent decades in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh zone. according to Bloomberg News on 1.10.
“We call for an immediate cessation of all hostilities between the armed forces of all concerned,” President Putin said in a joint statement with his Trump and Macron counterparts, marking the highest level of intervention. since the crisis broke out on September 27 in Nagorno-Karabakh.

However, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has placed himself in the position of taking on the three powers of the OSCE’s Minsk group, acting as a mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute for nearly three decades.

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Erdogan stressed that the OSCE group’s search for a ceasefire agreement in Minsk “is unacceptable” and that the conflict only ends when the Armenian forces leave Nagorno-Karabakh.

President Macron called Turkey’s declaration “dangerous” and France will not accept any message leading to an escalation of the crisis.

Nagorno-Karabakh is currently an autonomous region with the majority of the Armenian population. This area was declared independent from Azerbaijan in 1991. Until now, Nagorno-Karabakh is still considered part of the territory of Azerbaijan, but it is controlled by separatist forces.

Russia has military bases on Armenian soil and the two countries have signed a bilateral defense treaty, although it does not include disputed territory.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has close historical ties with Turkey, with the two countries holding large-scale drills last month.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev promised to fight until the withdrawal of Armenian forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and seven neighboring districts, while Armenia insisted that it would protect the autonomy of this area.




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