Kremlin: Turkish participation in Karabakh peacekeeping mission wasn’t discussed

Participation of Turkish peacekeepers in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement is impossible without approval from Yerevan and Baku, but this issue was not discussed, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"We are still coming from understanding that Russian servicemen will be peacekeepers who are already deployed to the line of contact zone between the parties," Peskov explained. "Meanwhile, cooperation with the Turkish military will be conducted in the framework of the monitoring center which will be located in Azerbaijan."

When asked if Russia is ready to agree to deployment of Turkish peacekeepers in the region, he said that "this topic was not discussed."

"This cannot be a topic for discussion only between Moscow and Ankara. Armenia and Azerbaijan <…> should agree to it," Peskov noted, adding that "there were no such agreements," TASS reported.

When commenting on Ankara’s statements that Turkish peacekeepers will be part of the mission to Nagorno-Karabakh, the spokesman underlined, "we can suppose that there are some differences in understanding."