PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijan does not yet support the idea of deploying Russian military observers in a proposed verification mechanism in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, aide to the Azerbaijani President Hikmet Hajiyev said in an interview with El Mundo.
"We do not believe that the deployment of the military personnel (Russian military observers - Ed.) is appropriate right now. We don't need them at the moment," Hajiyev was quoted as saying on Friday, October 16.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier said it would be "correct" to deploy Russian military observers on the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, but the final decision is up to the sides of the conflict.
The Armenian side, meanwhile, maintains that verification mechanisms on the ground in Karabakh are key in terms...
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