Aliyev's aide: Baku, Moscow still determining Russian peacekeepers' mandateSeptember 6, 2021 - 14:22 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan and Russia are discussing additional legal mechanisms on the mandate of the Russian peacekeepers deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh, an aide to the President of Azerbaijan, Hikmet Hajiyev, has said. “As for additional agreements and legal mechanisms on the mandate of the peacekeepers, there have been preliminary contacts between the parties in this regard, and certain discussions are still ongoing,” Hajiyev said in an interview with the BBC. He stressed that the activity of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Karabakh is based on the trilateral statement of November 9, signed by the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. Hajiyev said the trilateral statement set a "political and, to a certain extent, legal framework" for the peacekeeping forces. Around 2000 Russian peacekeepers were sent to the region when Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev on November 9 signed a statement to end the war in Karabakh after almost 45 days. Under the deal, the Armenian side returned all the seven regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities. Photo. Ria Novosti Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. Ex-President: Only removal of “defeatist” rulers can save Armenia Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has shared a message on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Pashinyan: We must stop searching for homeland, we have found that homeland Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has shared a message on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. |