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The US State Department announced on Sunday that Armenia and Azerbaijan pledged once again to carry out a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as of Monday, following negotiations in Washington.
On Saturday, Undersecretary of State Stephen Begon met with the foreign ministers of the two countries, according to the United States Department of State in a statement, adding that “the humanitarian ceasefire will take effect on 26 February. October at 8:00 local time (4:00 GMT) “.
In a separate statement, the OSCE’s Minsk Group, which was formed under the leadership of France, Russia and the United States to mediate the conflict, said it would meet again on October 29 to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan separately on Friday in a new attempt to end the nearly month-long fighting that Russian President Vladimir said. Putin had probably killed 5,000 people.
In addition, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced that Armenia bombed Azerbaijani residential areas in Agdam, Tartar and Aghabadi. While the Ministry of Defense of the separatist region of Azerbaijan accused the bombing of the positions of its forces, which caused 11 deaths and increased the number of victims since the beginning of the fighting last September to 974.
It is noteworthy that the region has witnessed since September 27 the heaviest fighting since the 1990s, when some 30,000 people died in a war that lasted from 1991 to 1994 due to the effort of Nagorno Karabakh, which has a majority of Armenian origin, for completely separating from Azerbaijan with the support of the Armenians.
