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Aris Messinis | French Media Agency
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Armania and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire – which will come into force at noon this Saturday – to “negotiate” a peaceful solution in the Nagorno Karabakh region, announced the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, at the end of marathon talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries, in Moscow.
“A ceasefire has been announced from 12:00 hours (05:00 in Chile) on October 10, 2020 for humanitarian purposes,” Lavrov said when reading a statement at the end of 11 hours of negotiation in the capital. Russian.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zajarova, confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the ceasefire begins this Saturday at noon.
Lavrov assured that the ceasefire “will allow the exchange of prisoners of war, other people and the bodies of the dead according to the criteria of the Committee of the International Red Cross (ICRC).”
Azerbaijan and Armenia also pledged to carry out “substantial negotiations to quickly achieve a peaceful solution” to the conflict under the aegis of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group, the Russian Foreign Minister said when reading the statement.
The “specific parameters” of the implementation of the ceasefire will be agreed laterexplains the statement.
Since September 27, Armenian separatists from the self-proclaimed Nagorno Karabakh republic, supported by Armenia, have been confronting Azerbaijani forces in this mountainous region claimed by both countries.
The official toll on Friday rose to more than 400 dead, including 22 Armenian civilians and 31 Random Baijanis, although the actual number of victims may be much higher since both camps claim to have eliminated thousands of enemy soldiers.
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