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Putin, Aliyev, Pashinyan affirm importance of implementing Karabakh agreements — Kremlin

It was reported that on March 26, Azerbaijan’s forces had entered into the zone of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone conversations with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Kremlin press office reported on Thursday.

"The development of the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh has been discussed with an emphasis on solving practical tasks to ensure security and stability in the region. The importance of consistent implementation of all the provisions of the trilateral statements of November 9, 2020, January 11 and November 26, 2021, has been affirmed," the statement said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on March 26 that Azerbaijan’s forces had entered into the zone of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh. On Sunday evening, it said that Azerbaijan had pulled its forces out of the community of Farukh (Parukh) in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh aggravated on September 27, 2020, when hostilities flared up there. On November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a trilateral statement on the cessation of hostilities in the area of the conflict. The Azerbaijani and Armenian forces stopped at the positions they were holding at the moment, a number of districts were placed under Baku’s control and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the engagement line and the Lachin corridor.