Azerbaijan is ready to provide its oil and gas pipelines for the transit of hydrocarbons from Turkmenistan, Rovnag Abdullayev, the state energy firm SOCAR's president, said.

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Russia has deployed several thousand peacekeepers between the sides. Turkey, which was a major factor in helping Azerbaijan reverse its three decades of losses in a 45-day assault, also has officials in the formerly occupied territories of Azerbaijan as part of a joint Russian-Turkish monitoring centre.