By Nailia Bagirova
BAKU (Reuters) -Azerbaijan doesn’t plan to ship peacekeepers to Gaza except there’s a full halt to combating there between Israel and Hamas, an Azerbaijani Overseas Ministry supply instructed Reuters on Friday.
As a part of President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, the U.S. has been chatting with Azerbaijan, Indonesia, the UAE, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey about potential contributions from these international locations to an Worldwide Stabilization Pressure (ISF) of round 20,000 troops.
“We don’t need to put our troops at risk. This could solely occur if army motion is totally stopped,” the Azerbaijani supply mentioned.
The supply famous that any such determination must be accepted by parliament. The top of the parliamentary safety committee instructed Reuters that it had not but obtained any draft invoice on the matter.
A U.S.-drafted decision on the United Nations would authorize the ISF to “use all essential measures” – which means power, if essential – to hold out its mandate to stabilize safety in Gaza.
Hamas has not mentioned whether or not it’ll conform to disarm and demilitarize Gaza, one thing it has beforehand rejected.
(Reporting by Nailia Bagirova in Baku, writing by Mark Trevelyan, enhancing by Alexandra Hudson)