Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed in a telephone conversation the settlement of the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh, including the work of the Russian-Turkish center for monitoring the ceasefire, the Kremlin press service reported on Wednesday following the leaders' conversation.
"They touched on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, including in the context of the work of the Russian-Turkish center for controlling the ceasefire and all military actions in the conflict zone," the statement said.
Baku and Yerevan have disputed the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh since February 1988, when the region announced its secession from the Azerbaijani SSR. On September 27, 2020, the situation in the region escalated and active hostilities began. On November 9, a trilateral statement was signed by the President of Russia, the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia. It stipulated that the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides stopped at the occupied positions, a number of areas were passed under Baku's control, and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the line of contact and the Lachin corridor.
In January 2021, a joint Russian-Turkish monitoring center was opened in the Agdam district of Azerbaijan to monitor the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Based on materials from TASS