British Ambassador to Baku James Sharp said in an interview with the BBC Azerbaijani Service, that London would prefer to see multinational peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, and not exclusively the Russian contingent.
He also spoke about the need to exchange maps of minefields and prisoners of war.
The ambassador noted that Britain would prefer the OSCE Minsk Group to negotiate a truce and the peacekeeping contingent to be international.
“It is necessary to study the mandate (of the Russian peacekeeping forces), to finalize this mandate. What could be an alternative (to the Russian mission), what could follow it?”
However, he positively assessed the agenda of trilateral talks between Baku, Yerevan and Moscow on the opening of transport communications in the region and economic cooperation.
He also admitted that the status of Nagorno-Karabakh remains unresolved.
“In the end, the issue of a final settlement, a peace treaty, must be resolved, and the Minsk Group co-chairs must play a role in this,” Sharp said.
The British ambassador in Baku called on the Armenian side to give Azerbaijan the map of the minefields, and called on Azerbaijan to return the Armenian prisoners of war.
