Azerbaijan may refuse Russia to extend term of stay of peacekeepers  in Nagorno-Karabakh. They do not need additional witnesses to  massacres of Armenians- Zatulin

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan may refuse the Russian Federation to extend the term of stay of peacekeepers in  Nagorno-Karabakh. They do not need additional witnesses to the massacres of Armenians. A similar opinion is shared by Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.

It should be noted that earlier President of the Republic of  Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated on AzTV that the Armenians living in  Nagorno-Karabakh must accept Azerbaijani citizenship or leave the  region. According to Aliyev, "Baku intends to sign a peace agreement  in the near future to put an end to the conflict between Azerbaijan  and Armenia." Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that  Armenia must forever give up territorial claims to other countries in  order to establish peace.

In this regard, Zatulin expressed his conviction that Pashinyan had  surrendered people and territory.

"The next action will be to refuse Russia to extend the deployment  period of the peacekeeping contingent.  They are not needed there, so  that there are no witnesses from outside, because they will expel,  squeeze and oppress the Armenians," Konstantin Zatulin said in an  interview with NSN.

At the same time, he noted that the story with Nagorno-Karabakh will  not end there, because Baku is already refusing its promises on the  autonomy of the disputed territory.

"The Armenian government surrendered Karabakh, surrendered people in  Karabakh. Even during the Soviet era, this territory was an  autonomous entity within Azerbaijan. Now, as we know, Azerbaijan is  refusing what it promised before, namely the highest autonomy, there  is none of this. The name Nagorno- Karabakh will be destroyed, Baku  already refuses to call it that. This is a continuation of history in  a new form, in a new time of the tragedy of the Armenian people -  their eviction from their historical lands," Zatulin concluded.