The United States and France are expecting to get details over Turkey’s role around the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, RIA Novosti reported citing a source at the US State Department who presented details from Secretary Mike Pompeo’s meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian.
The bodies of around 150 Armenian troops were retrieved from the outskirts of Shushi, President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan said, adding that hundreds of bodies are still on the battlefields.
The United Kingdom welcomes the Karabakh armistice and expresses hope that it will move the parties closer towards a fully negotiated settlement of the conflict, Nicola Murray, Deputy Head of the UK Delegation said at the OSCE Permanent Council on November 12.
President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan held a meeting with lawmakers representing the factions in the Artsakh parliament to discuss the military-political situation and the provisions of the Russia-mediated Karabakh armistice signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan which ended the war.
French President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the Elysee Palace reports.
Digital Forensic Research Lab has published an article about Azerbaijan’s use of banned white phosphorus munitions in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) during the recent war, stating that satellite imagery from the last week of fighting shows the environmental destruction caused to the forests in Nagorno Karabakh.
The United States, as one of the three Minsk Group co-chairs, welcomes the apparent ceasefire and cessation of fighting in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone, US Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Ambassador James S. Gilmore delivered the US statement on the NK conflict to the Permanent Council.
The Russian peacekeepers deployed to Nagorno Karabakh have already installed 10 observation posts at the line of contact and the Lachin corridor, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Russian Aerospace Forces Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters will be involved in the peacekeeping operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said that the Russia-mediated Nagorno Karabakh armistice signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan will lead to a full negotiations process over the conflict.
