A Kremlin spokesman confirmed the news, Russian agencies reported.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he signed an agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the military conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday morning after more than a month of bloodshed.
A Kremlin spokesman confirmed the news, Russian agencies reported Tuesday. There was no immediate official reaction from Baku.
Arayik Harutyunyan, the leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, said on Facebook that he gave his agreement “to end the war as soon as possible.”
The declaration came after six weeks of intense fighting and advances by Azerbaijani forces. Baku said on Monday it had seized dozens more settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after proclaiming victory in the battle for the strategically located second-largest city in the enclave.
“The decision is made based on in-depth analysis of the combat situation and in discussion with the best experts in the field,” Pashinyan said on social media.
“This is not a victory, but there is no defeat until you consider yourself defeated. We will never consider ourselves defeated and this will become a new beginning of an era of our national unity and rebirth, ”he said.
The fighting had raised fears of a broader regional war, with Turkey supporting its ally Azerbaijan, while Russia has a defense pact with Armenia and a military base there.
Azerbaijan says that since September 27 it has regained much of the land in and around Nagorno-Karabakh that it lost in a 1991-94 war that killed some 30,000 people and forced many more from their homes. Armenia has denied the extent of Azerbaijan’s territorial gains.
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