The UN Security Council discussed the need to monitor the ceasefire regime in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya, who chaired the Council in October following a closed session on Nagorno-Karabakh, told reporters.
"Now it is necessary to ensure the implementation of the cease-fire (TASS), this is the most urgent issue, as the relevant agreement was reached but was not observed," he said. - "The main question is how to ensure the implementation of the ceasefire is monitored".
"This issue has of course been discussed in consultations, and the Council has been quite unified in its approaches," the permanent representative continued. At the same time, he explained that sending a UN monitoring mission to the region "would require a special mandate from the Security Council". "That's not a quick process," the diplomat pointed out. "There were reports that the Russian defense minister was discussing with his colleagues in Armenia and Azerbaijan how that control could be implemented," Nebenzya said.
The diplomat didn't rule out that the OSCE mission could take over the monitoring, especially since that organization is carrying out the settlement process. "Who will be there, in what capacity - is still a question under discussion," he added.
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Based on materials from TASS