Russian peacekeepers fulfill job in Nagorno-Karabakh professionally, Baku says
The Russian peacekeepers are trying to keep balance and open channel of communication between the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides, said Hikmet Hajiyev, an adviser to the Azerbaijani president
WASHINGTON, January 26. /TASS/. Azerbaijan is convinced that the Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh are acting professionally and does not believe that Moscow is using them in an attempt to exert pressure on Baku or Yerevan, Hikmet Hajiyev, an adviser to the Azerbaijani president, said. So far we have an open dialogue and communication with the Russian peacekeepers. And they fulfill their job in a professional manner, Hajiyev told an online seminar held by the Washington-based Atlantic Council. According to him, the Russian peacekeepers are trying to keep balance and open channel of communication between the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides. From that perspective we are satisfied, he said.
The Azerbaijani leader informed that recovery works in the city of Shusha had begun
BAKU, January 15. /TASS/. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has announced the beginning of recovery works in Nagorno-Karabakh and the big return to the region.
Read also The big return is beginning, all [recovery] works have started, the president said during the ceremony timed to the laying of the foundation of an international airport in the Fuzuli District in Nagorno-Karabakh. Aliyev was quoted on his website on Friday.
The Azerbaijani leader also informed that recovery works in the city of Shusha had begun.
During a visit to Shusha, Aliyev met with military officers and visited a number of cultural and religious monuments.
It is extremely important for Moscow to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis, maintaining a balance in relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as with Turkey and Iran, and with partners in the OSCE Minsk Group. There is no rational need to create additional tensions with the West over Karabakh until (and if) the United States and its allies begin to revise the currently fragile consensus with Russia, Valdai Club expert Sergey Markedonov writes.