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The Foreign Ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia – Sergei Lavrov, Ceyhun Bayramov and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan – in Moscow.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was made clear in the joint statement adopted after several hours of tripartite consultations in Moscow, which was attended by the foreign ministers of both countries: Sergei Lavrov, Ceyhun Bayramov and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, TASS reported.
It was agreed that the ceasefire would begin at 12 noon today for humanitarian purposes: the exchange of prisoners and other detainees, as well as the bodies of the dead, in compliance with the criteria of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) the three ministers said in a statement. , read after the Sergei Lavrov negotiations. It claims that the document was adopted in response to a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin in accordance with the agreements between the heads of state of the three countries. The Associated Press said the truce was negotiated through Putin, who held a series of telephone conversations with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
The humanitarian operation will be mediated by the ICR, Reuters added. “The specific parameters of the ceasefire regime will be agreed upon later,” said the second paragraph of the document.
Furthermore, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed, with the mediation of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, to enter into substantive negotiations with a view to reaching a peaceful solution to the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh as soon as possible.
The parties also confirm “the invariability of the form of the negotiation process”, expressed in the fourth paragraph. The Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia arrived in Moscow yesterday at the invitation of the President of the Russian Federation. The talks lasted more than 10 hours. Bayramov and Mnatsakanyan did not speak to the journalists, who waited for the talks in Moscow to end a few hours after midnight.
The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on September 27, with clashes on the disputed territory. Martial law was imposed in Azerbaijan and Armenia, mobilization announced. Both parties reported being killed and injured, including among the civilian population, recalls TASS. / BTA
