Azerbaijan does not yet support the idea of including Russian military observers within the ceasefire monitoring mechanism in Nagorno-Karabakh. The statement came from Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev in an interview with El Mundo.

"Azerbaijan is conducting operations not in the territory of another country, but in [the territory] under its sovereignty. And we do not think that sending those military [the Russian military observers] [there] is appropriate right now," Hajiyev said. "We do not need them now."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had said in an interview with Sputnik, Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Govorit Moskva radio stations on Wednesday that Russia does not rule out the possibility of Russian military observers being included in the ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict zone.

And Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, for his part, had stated that the deployment of peacekeepers or observers to the Karabakh conflict zone was possible only with the consent of Azerbaijan and Armenia.