Ministry of Defense: Peacekeepers must stop using concept of “Nagorny Karabakh”

Despite the repeated discontent expressed by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense, the Armenian names of Azerbaijani settlements continue to be mentioned in the official information of the peacekeeping contingent of Russia, the defense department said.

“The designation of the Karabakh Economic District as” the territory of the Nagorno -Karabakh “should be terminated. In general, it is unacceptable to denote the Azerbaijani territories with fictional Armenian toponyms. We are the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, temporarily deployed in Azerbaijan, indicate the names of the settlements of Azerbaijan in Azerbaijan. in accordance with the official documents sent by him. The official ballot of the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation, published on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Defense dated November 28, Azerbaijani settlements mentioned as Mardakerti, Madagiz and Getavan should be called by Agder , Khojavend, Sugovushan and Hozlucerpu, respectively, ”the Ministry of Defense emphasized.