Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Russia has appointed considered one of its most senior navy commanders to guide a peacekeeping power within the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area, as tensions escalate once more between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Russian peacekeepers have been deployed in 2020 to finish the battle over Nagorno-Karabakh, the second battle that Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought because the Soviet collapse in 1991. The territory is internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan, however is inhabited by an ethnic Armenian majority.
Reported by Reuters, Thursday (27/4/2023), the Russian armed forces mentioned the peacekeepers have been now headed by Colonel Basic Alexander Lentsov, deputy commander in chief of the Russian military. He changed Main Basic Andrei Volkov, a extra junior officer.
No motive was given for the change, which was introduced hours after a phone dialog between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Armenia has voiced rising frustration that Russian troops didn’t open the Lachin hall, the one land route that connects it to Karabakh throughout Azerbaijani territory.
Russian media quoted an Armenian spokesman on Tuesday as saying that the nation had appealed to the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice towards Azerbaijan’s set up of checkpoints on highways on Sunday, calling it a “flagrant violation” of Baku’s obligations to make sure free motion.
Azerbaijani Deputy Overseas Minister Elnur Mammadov mentioned the checkpoint was arrange in response to “safety issues in reference to the continued misuse of roads by Armenia for the transport of weapons and different unlawful actions”.
“We’re in shut contact with the ICRC (Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross) and the Russian peacekeeping contingent to facilitate one of the best humanitarian entry,” he mentioned.
Beforehand, Russia’s Overseas Ministry mentioned it was holding talks with Armenia, an ally within the Collective Safety Treaty Group (CSTO), about the necessity to defuse tensions with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh area.
Deputy Overseas Minister of Russia Mikhail Galuzin met with two Deputy Overseas Ministers of Armenia and urged them to accentuate efforts to normalize the state of affairs within the area.
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