Peskov announced contacts between Russia and the West on the situation in Karabakh

Russia did have some contacts with Western countries regarding the situation in Karabakh, but not those that Politico previously wrote about. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov stated this in a conversation with reporters.

“Not exactly as they describe it. There are a lot of inaccuracies, a lot of errors in this material. There were certain contacts on Karabakh, they really took place, but these are not the negotiations that are written about there,” he said.

Previously, October 4th edition of Politico reported, that on September 17, a meeting of representatives of Russia, the United States and the EU took place in Istanbul, the purpose of which was to “exert pressure” on Azerbaijan due to the blockade of the Lachin corridor that was ongoing at that time. The United States was represented at the negotiations by Washington’s senior adviser for negotiations in the Caucasus, Louis Bono, and the EU sent its representative in the region, Toivo Klaar, its representative in the region. Russia was represented by Igor Khovaev, special representative of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry for the normalization of relations between Yerevan and Baku. According to the publication, this meeting was a rare recent case of interaction between Moscow and the West on a “serious security issue.”

On September 19, Azerbaijan announced the start of “anti-terrorist measures” necessary for the “restoration of the constitutional order” in Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku demanded the dissolution of the regional government and the withdrawal of Armenian troops. Yerevan denied the presence of its troops in the region.

The next day, the Karabakh authorities announced the conclusion of agreements on a complete ceasefire, then negotiations took place between the delegation of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and representatives of the Azerbaijani authorities. As a result of the meeting, the Karabakh military began to surrender their weapons under the control of Russian peacekeepers.

September 28, President of the unrecognized republic Samvel Shahramanyan signed decree on the termination of its existence from January 1, 2024 and the dissolution of all government institutions and organizations. Armenians began to leave the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the latest data, more than 100,000 displaced persons have entered Armenia. How reported On October 3 at the UN, between 50 and 1000 ethnic Armenians remained in Karabakh.