The US and French authorities' inquiry from Russia over the trilateral ceasefire agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh [(Artsakh)] can be explained by jealousy of Russia's success. Such an opinion was expressed by Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council.

"The US and France inquiry is jealousy as to something could have been successful without their participation," Kosachev said on the air of a Russian television.

According to the Russian lawmaker, both Washington and Paris are now asking themselves what the way out of this situation is, and why they failed to carry out a peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh as successfully as Russia did.

At the same time, Kosachev stressed that, "Russian diplomats were in contact with representatives from the US and France at all stages [of the trilateral talks on Nagorno-Karabakh]."

He added that Russia will continue to inform the other members of the OSCE Minsk Group about the course of its ongoing peacekeeping operation in Artsakh.

Also, Konstantin Kosachev noted that the Russian-Turkish joint monitoring center in Azerbaijan "will monitor, not conduct, the peacekeeping mission."

On November 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on a complete cessation of hostilities in and around Artsakh. Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers will be deployed in the region to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities. But this statement also stipulates the handover of part of Artsakh lands to Azerbaijan.