Kremlin commented on Turkey's plans to send the military to Azerbaijan

16 November 2020

 

Introduction in the Turkish parliament of the draft decree of President Tayyip Erdogan on sending military personnel to Azerbaijan is an internal procedure stipulated by the republic's legislation, press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told reporters.


Earlier, Anadolu agency informed that the draft decree of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on sending of Turkish military personnel to Azerbaijan was sent to the parliament of the republic.


"The thing is that there will also be a monitoring center on the territory of Azerbaijan, the Turkish military should be sent there - this is the implementation of internal procedures, procedures stipulated by the internal legislation of the Turkish Republic. This is an internal matter of Turkey," Peskov said.


"As for the agreements on the establishment of a joint monitoring center on the territory of Azerbaijan, it is a product of bilateral agreement between Russia and Turkey", the Kremlin representative added.


Leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on November 10 on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the statement, a number of districts are under Azerbaijan's control, the parties exchange prisoners, Russian peacekeepers are deployed along the line of contact and along the Lachin corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.


On November 11, Erdogan said that Ankara and Moscow signed a memorandum on a center to control the ceasefire in Karabakh and they would take part in a "joint peacekeeping mission". Before that, Peskov informed that Moscow and Ankara would work on Karabakh through a monitoring center on the territory of Azerbaijan, "there was no talk about joint peacekeeping forces".

 

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Based on materials from RIA Novosti