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Ceasefire in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh probably agreed
On Tuesday, Azerbaijan attacked the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is mainly inhabited by Armenians
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On Tuesday morning, authoritarian-led Azerbaijan launched attacks against the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Baku wants to conquer the area inhabited by Armenians. Dozens of people were killed and injured. Now there is apparently going to be a ceasefire.
According to media reports, one day after the start of an Azerbaijani military operation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region A ceasefire has been agreed. The authorities of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in the South Caucasus have accepted a corresponding proposal from the Russian side, the Armenian news agency Armenpress reported on Wednesday, among others.
“In the current situation, the measures taken by the international community to end the war and resolve the situation are inadequate,” Armenpress quoted an official statement as saying. “Taking this into account, the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh accept the proposal of the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent regarding a ceasefire.”
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According to the Russian agency Interfax, the ceasefire is said to have officially already begun – namely at 1:00 p.m. Armenian time (11:00 a.m. CEST). Accordingly, it is said to have been agreed that remaining units of the Armenian army will be withdrawn from Nagorno-Karabakh and that Karabakh fighters will hand over their weapons. It was initially unclear whether this would actually be implemented. There was initially no official confirmation from the Russian side.
Authoritarian-led Azerbaijan began a broad military operation to conquer Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday morning. Although the region is located on Azerbaijani territory, the majority of it is inhabited by Armenians. The two former Soviet countries have been fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades. The ceasefire after the last war in 2020, in which Azerbaijan, which was well-armed thanks to gas and oil revenues, had already conquered large parts of Karabakh, was repeatedly broken.
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Russia is traditionally considered Armenia’s protective power and has stationed its own soldiers in the conflict region. Now, however, Moscow needs its fighters primarily for its own war of aggression against Ukraine. Observers had therefore already feared that Azerbaijan could use this unstable situation for military action. Even before the latest shelling began, the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh was catastrophic because Azerbaijan blocked Armenia’s only access to the exclave – the so-called Lachin corridor.
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