Turkey rushes to peacekeeping mission in Nagorno Karabakh

PanARMENIAN.Net - "In case if NATO decides to carry out a peacekeeping mission in Nagorno Karabakh, Turkish soldiers will participate in it with pleasure," head of the Turkish delegation in NATO Parliament Assembly, member of the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) party Vahid Erdem stated.



Meanwhile it is worth underlining that only OSCE has a mandate for peacekeping mission but the organization does not have peacekeeping forces as such. The United Nations and NATO have peacekeeping forces. However neither the UN or NATO has peacekeeping mandate in Karabakh. The matter is which organization will carry out that operation. The second problem is the following: the conflicting sides came to an understanding that the OSCE Minsk Group countries and neighboring states (i.e. Turkey, Iran and Georgia) cannot participate in the peacekeeping mission. So it means that Turkey's statements are baseless.