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West wants to undermine Nagorno Karabakh peace deal, warns Russia

Prensa Latina
Nov 18 2020
Moscow, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) The West is trying to cancel the agreement reached between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the conflict centered around Nagorno Karabakh, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, Sergei Narishkin, warned.
Western powers encourage Armenian and Azerbaijani nationalists to torpedo the settlement brokered on the 9th of this month by Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Azerbaijani counterpart Iljam Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the official said.

The intention is for the Armenians to see that the compromise was a defeat for Nagorno Karabakh and Yerevan, while the Azerbaijanis are presented with the thesis of the need to have continued warring until the final victory in the confrontation, which began on September 27th, the politician explained.

For Narishkin, such manipulations demonstrate that the United States and its European friends, as always, solve their tasks at the expense of the interests of ordinary people and, this time, the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis are on the line.

Americans and Europeans are not at all concerned that their provocative activities could lead to new bloodshed when the region becomes once again embroiled in a harsh war, the official said.

The tripartite agreement provides for the end of the fighting, the exchange of prisoners and the evacuation of bodies, the deployment of a contingent of almost two thousand Russian military personnel on the line of confrontation and in the so-called Lachin corridor, as well as the return of refugees.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Igor Konashenkov, reported that the peacekeeping contingent made a change of observation posts and changed the number of them in the Nagorno Karabakh region.

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