Moscow assumes that the issue of foreign fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh will be resolved, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Thursday.
"The militants who were moved [to Nagorno-Karabakh] have not disappeared," the diplomat said. - "We believe that this issue will be resolved. All parties interested in peace in the region must make efforts to resolve it".
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry specified that the military experts were dealing with it from the Russian side. "I think that this issue requires specific work of specialists and then a report on the results, not vice versa," she added.
Zakharova said that Russia had made every effort to achieve peace in Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to her, after the signing of the statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, Russian and foreign media published materials about who won and who lost as a result of the situation. "I want to respond specifically to the phrase that Russia has allegedly abandoned Armenia and Armenians. Russia has left not Armenia and the Armenians, but has left everything to settle the situation," the diplomat underlined. - "First the political [forces] using diplomacy, international law, negotiation process and then sending its peacekeepers there".
"Those who speak on TV programs shouting at each other should remember that today the security, peace and future of the citizens of this region are guaranteed by Russian peacekeepers," Zakharova said. - "This is a question of how our country's leadership is truly interested in the stability of the region.
In late September, information began to come in about the transfer of militants from Syria and Libya to the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to take part in hostilities. On November 9, leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a joint statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that according to the reached agreements, the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides would remain in their occupied positions, and Russian peacekeepers would be deployed in the region.
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