The servicemen of the Turkish Armed Forces under the command of a brigadier general have departed to Azerbaijan, Turkey’s NTV channel said, Trend reports on Dec.26 referring to TASS.

A spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministry has said that the number of personnel in the joint Russian-Turkish centre to monitor the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region will be equal from each country.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has welcomed the establishment of a joint Russian-Turkish ceasefire monitoring centre.

The foreign policy format of trilateral cooperation among Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey, which was initiated by Baku, continued in the form of interaction among think tanks, Head of the Expert Council of the Baku Network, PhD Elkhan Alasgarov told Trend.