Today, Wednesday, a Russian-Turkish center was announced to monitor the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a day after the cessation of hostilities was announced in the Karabakh region, at a time when the Armenian Parliament meets to discuss the dismissal of the Prime Minister, who is accused by demonstrators of treason by accepting a truce that enhances field gains for Azerbaijan.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Moscow and Ankara had agreed to establish a joint center to follow up the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Russian Ministry stated that the monitoring center for the cessation of hostilities will be in Azerbaijan, outside the Karabakh region.
In the same context, the fate of the Prime Minister of Armenia is at stake today after Parliament agreed to discuss demands from demonstrators to dismiss him because of his signing of the ceasefire agreement that guaranteed Azerbaijan to achieve territorial gains in the disputed region.
The truce announced yesterday ended the fighting that lasted 6 weeks and was the worst escalation of the conflict in the mountain enclave in decades, but Azerbaijan celebrated the agreement as "historic".
Traitor go away, and
thousands of Armenians demonstrated in the capital Yerevan, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and hundreds organized a march to Parliament chanting slogans calling him a traitor.
After the demonstrators set a midnight deadline for Pashinyan's resignation, Parliament announced that it would hold a special session this evening to discuss these demands.
For his part, Pashinyan said that he had no choice but to sign the ceasefire agreement, in order to prevent further losses on the ground.
He added that he signed the agreement under pressure from the army.
He admitted that what the matter reached was a "catastrophic failure" and said that he bears personal responsibility for these setbacks, but he refused calls to step down.
As for the leader of Karabakh, he said that the battles have reached the point where Azerbaijan risks controlling the entire region, after it has captured the second largest city in it.
Although Baku praised the agreement, which it considered a victory, some Azerbaijani citizens are frustrated that their country's forces stopped fighting before regaining control over the entire region, while others expressed concern about the arrival of peacekeepers from Russia, which dominated the region in the Soviet era.