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After marathons of talks in Moscow
Azerbaijan and Armenia agree to a ceasefire starting at 12:00 on Saturday at noon local time (11:00 Greek time) in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.Said Russian diplomacy after marathon talks in Moscow between the foreign ministers of the two conflicting parties and the mediated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
“A ceasefire will be announced from 12:00 noon on October 10, 2020 for humanitarian purposes”, Lavrov announced today at 3 a.m., reading the public announcement after talks that lasted more than 10 hours.
THE head of Russian diplomacy stressed that the ceasefire will allow “The exchange of prisoners of war, other people and the bodies of those killed in clashes …”, noting that the International Committee of the Red Cross will act as a mediator in the humanitarian operation.
the Azerbaijan and the Armenia they were also engaged “In substantive negotiations for a rapid peaceful settlement” the conflict mediated by the co-chairs of the Minsk Group, said the Russian foreign minister, adding that “specific parameters” for the implementation of the ceasefire will be agreed later.
The 10-hour talks in Moscow were the first diplomatic contact between Armenia and Azerbaijan since September 27. when Armenian separatists from the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, with the support of Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, began to clash in this mountainous enclave claimed by the two countries, resulting in hundreds of people.
Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Zograb Mnatsakanyan and Jeyhun Bairamov did not comment to reporters after the talks.
Source: Athens / Macedonia News Agency
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