The boundaries of the mobility of the Turkish observers will be limited to the geographical coordinates that will be specified for the setting up of the Russian-Turkish monitoring center to be established in the territory Azerbaijan. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated this at a press conference Thursday.
“In the area that is not close to Karabakh [(Artsakh)], and which will be additionally agreed to establish a joint monitoring center; the center will operate. A memorandum of understanding was signed in this regard yesterday at the level of the Russian and Turkish defense ministers, exclusively remotely, using objective technical means of monitoring—including drones and other technologies—which allow determining the situation on the line of contact, and determining which side maintains or violates all the conditions of hostilities and ceasefire. So, the boundaries of the mobility of Turkish observers will be limited to those areas that have been allocated in the Azerbaijani territory, not in the territory of the previous conflict,” Lavrov said.
As for the statements made in the Turkish parliament about sending Turkish troops, the Russian FM said that he had read them, as well as read the statements of the Turkish Foreign and Defense Ministers that they would work on the same basis as the Russians. “We are talking only about the center which is set up in the territory of Azerbaijan, remotely, without a mission trip. Russian and Turkish observers will work in the center; the specialists will work in equal conditions. There will be no Turkish peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh; this is clearly stated in the statement of the leaders [of Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan],” Lavrov assured.