Sergei Lavrov.
Baku/18.01.23/Turan: Russia has proposed checking each vehicle traveling along the Lachin road for the absence of prohibited non-humanitarian cargo in it, a press conference by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on January 18. The minister recalled that, according to a trilateral agreement, on November 9, 2020, the Lachin corridor should be free for the passage of goods of citizens and vehicles.
“Of course, it was separately agreed that no military cargo should be sent along this route. The Azerbaijanis provided data, and now our military is studying it, that the Armenian side delivered mines along this corridor. Then these mines were used to mine the territory near the Azerbaijani positions in violation of the agreements," Lavrov said.
According to him, the Russian side came up with a proposal to resolve the current situation on the Lachin road. “We proposed a very simple thing. The peacekeeping contingent that Russia sent there has the authority to control this movement. And the contingent has every opportunity to check each vehicle for the absence of prohibited non-humanitarian, non-civilian goods in it.
Yesterday or the day before yesterday, a meeting of representatives of Azerbaijan with representatives of Karabakh took place with the participation of the commander of the Russian contingent. I think that the issue will be resolved in the near future,” Lavrov said. ---06B---
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