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Baku/01.11.20/Turan: The chief adviser to the Prime Minister of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan considers it unlikely that Scandinavian peacekeepers will be deployed in Karabakh at the suggestion of the United States, RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, the US President's National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien said that Washington is working with the Scandinavian countries on the possible dispatch of a peacekeeping mission to Nagorno-Karabakh, which can be deployed in the region to maintain a truce.
He believes that any armed peacekeeping forces should not include the co-chairing countries of the Minsk Group, including the United States or neighboring countries; Turkey's peacekeeping role is not an appropriate option for the United States and Armenia.
"I suppose that this is just a proposal, not probable today from the point of view of implementation ... But this is proposal," said Harutyunyan in an interview with the Public Television of Armenia. According to him, the most important task from the point of view of other states is the format and composition of the peacekeeping forces, since the interests of different countries are realized through the peacekeeping forces.
In his words, even the presence of Russian peacekeepers is acceptable for the Armenian side, but Baku does not oppose the third force, "promoting the Turkish factor." "Russia has already stated that it does not allow such a format. Turkey offered to cooperate with the Russian Federation, as in the Syrian Idlib, where joint duty is carried out, but Russia has rejected this," Harutyunyan noted. --0--
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