BAKU (Sputnik) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev to discuss the escalation on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the press service of the President of Azerbaijan said in a statement.
"On September 13, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. During the telephone conversation, Erdogan expressed deep condolences to the Azerbaijani people," according to the statement.
"Discussing the escalation at the border, Aliyev said that the responsibility for these large-scale military provocations lies directly with Armenia," it said.
Late on Monday, hostilities broke out on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. The sides accused each other of starting an escalation. Both sides reported losses among military personnel. By next morning, the parties agreed on a ceasefire.
Head of the Russian Federation Council's Foreign Affairs Committee Grigory Karasin told Sputnik the ceasefire was achieved thanks to the efforts of Russia, including after a conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and the work of the Russian Foreign Ministry. According to the senator, there is a lot of work to be done, since Yerevan applied to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
As CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov said earlier, on September 13, an emergency meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council was held, which expressed extreme concern about the situation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and considered proposals for using the CSTO mechanisms for settlement.
