Grigoryan: A group of NK peacekeeping troops left for temporary  accommodation centers in Goris and Sisian to organize their closure

ArmInfo.A group of servicemen and a convoy of the Nagorno-Karabakh peacekeeping contingent left for  temporary accommodation centers in Goris and Sisian to organize their closure. Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan stated.

He recalled that for the stationing and deployment of peacekeeping  activities in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian peacekeeping forces were  allocated temporary deployment sites in Goris and Sisian by the  Armenian government.

"The area was chosen, among other things, to ensure the normal  functioning of the Lachin corridor.  Since the Russian peacekeeping  contingent is leaving Nagorno-Karabakh, for obvious reasons it cannot  remain in the Republic of Armenia. A group of servicemen and a convoy  of the Nagorno- Karabakh peacekeeping contingent left for temporary  accommodation centers in Goris and Sisian to organize their closure,"  he noted in a conversation with Armenpress.

Notably, a part of the Russian peacekeeping contingent column  withdrew part of its equipment from Artsakh to Armenia yesterday. The  Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed in Artsakh following a  trilateral declaration signed on November 9, 2020 between the leaders  of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia. In accordance with the agreements,  1,960 military personnel with small arms, 90 armored personnel  carriers and 380 units of automobile and special equipment were sent  there. It was planned to deploy peacekeepers in the region for five  years - until 2025. After last year's September aggression by  Azerbaijan against Artsakh, against the backdrop of the inaction of  the entire international community, and the mass exodus of Artsakhis,  the need for peacekeepers generally disappeared.

The Kremlin has already confirmed the fact that the process of  withdrawing RPC forces from occupied Artsakh has begun. And Baku  reported that this decision was made at the level of the leaders of  Russia and Azerbaijan.