PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY. Nov 23 (Interfax) - The trilateral statement on Karabakh is written by Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Moscow has played the role of mediator, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"Three authors, that's for sure. As for my cue, it was my statement that I made after signing. And the text itself, the three of us did it: naturally, me, President Aliyev and Prime Minister Pashinyan. Otherwise it was impossible, because that was essentially an agreement between two sides," Putin said when asked who was the author of the document during an interview on the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin show on the Rossiya 1 (VGTRK) television channel on Sunday.
"Russia only performed the role of a mediator and undertook to carry out a peaceful disengagement under the document. And that's what we're doing right now. So the authors are clearly all the three sides," he said.
That was Putin's comment on the words he said in reply to his aide's suggestion that he read the trilateral statement on Karabakh before he gets to sign it. "Why read it? I wrote it," Putin replied.