Agreements on the construction of a center to monitor the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh are being implemented and Turkey has sent 60 representatives of military personnel there, Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday on NTV.
"Now 60 of our personnel are in Azerbaijan. All the agreements on the construction of the center between the three parties have been reached, there are still a number of issues to be solved concerning the construction, the placement of personnel. Our people will work together with the Russians. We'll discuss with the Russian side on the terms of their stay there, we'll again discuss the topic," he said. According to Akar, "Turkish and Russian generals will jointly manage the work".
He explained that 30 to 60 representatives of the Turkish Armed Forces would be directly involved in monitoring the maintenance of the cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh "together with the Russians." "They will do everything together with the Russians to ensure the permanence of the ceasefire," Akar said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on the full cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 9. According to the Russian leader, the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides are staying in the occupied positions, and Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the region. A memorandum on the establishment of a joint Russian-Turkish center to monitor the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh was signed on November 11 following talks via video link between Hulusi Akar and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
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