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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire, starting at 12:00 today, Saturday, to exchange prisoners and corpses.
Lavrov’s announcement came after the end of 10-hour talks with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts in Moscow at 3 a.m. local time.
The Russian minister said Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to start talks to resolve the conflict in the Nagorno Karabakh region.
Since September 27, battles have been raging on the front line between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the foreign ministers of the two countries met in Moscow at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called for an immediate end to the fighting in Karabakh for humanitarian reasons.
While Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev confirmed that his country is not ready to make concessions, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said the Moscow meeting’s agenda refers only to cessation of hostilities and humanitarian issues.
For his part, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that his country believes in the principle of a peaceful solution to the conflict in Karabakh and is ready to restart the political process for the region.
On the ground, the Al-Jazeera correspondent previously quoted a spokesman for the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry as saying that his country’s forces are still advancing on all fronts in Karabakh and that they have not lost any of the areas they have controlled since the start of this war.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Defense of the Nagorno Karabakh region, which is not internationally recognized, reported new combats between its forces and the Azerbaijani army in the different combat axes, especially the southern and northern axes, in reference to what which saw a decrease in the activity of the Azeri forces.
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