15:43, 23 March 2023
YEREVAN, MARCH 23, ARMENPRESS. Nagorno Karabakh’s Foreign Minister on March 23 said he doesn’t rule out the possible deployment of international peacekeepers to Nagorno Karabakh, but stressed that such a matter would require difficult decisions.
NK Foreign Minister Sergey Ghazaryan was asked to comment on Armenian PM Pashinyan’s March 16 remarks about the Russian peacekeepers.
Ghazaryan said that such agreements would require massive work in order to initiate such mechanisms.
“One thing is obvious, this security component is of top importance for Artsakh, and it is nearly impossible without the presence of peacekeeping forces. The more perfected that mechanism gets the better.”
He said that the circle of these issues would depend on the extent of the development of the mechanism. For example, he said, if the number of the Russian peacekeepers were to be ten times higher perhaps it would provide other possibilities.
“And you know that the issue of deploying international peacekeepers was always discussed within the OSCE Minsk Group process, and we don’t rule out such a format as well, perhaps by involving other countries, international organizations, but this is not a matter that can be solved with easy decisions,” Ghazaryan said.