Azerbaijan will not send peacekeepers to Gaza, president says

BAKU: Azerbaijan has no intention of sending a contingent of ​its troops to take part in peacekeeping operations outside its borders, including in Gaza, President Ilham Aliyev said late on Monday.
Aliyev, interviewed ‌by Azeri ‌television ‌channels, ⁠said Azerbaijan ​had ‌been in contact with Donald Trump’s US administration with a list of questions about the operation of a peacekeeping force in ⁠Gaza.
“We prepared a questionnaire ‌of more than ‍20 questions ‍and provided it to ‍the American side. No participation in peacekeeping forces is envisaged,” Aliyev said.
“I am not ​considering participation in hostilities outside Azerbaijan at all.”
An ⁠Azeri government source had said last November that Azerbaijan would provide no troops for such an operation unless there was a complete halt to fighting between Israel and the militant group ‌Hamas.