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Moscow announced in the early hours of Saturday that the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, after talks lasting 10 hours, reached an agreement to establish a ceasefire in Karabakh.
The Russian Foreign Ministry indicated that the two parties agreed that the agreement would enter into force from 12 noon on October 10.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “Azerbaijan and Armenia will initiate substantive negotiations with the co-chairs of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, on the basis of the basic principles of the settlement, with the aim of reaching a settlement. peaceful as soon as possible. “
The two sides stressed that the exchange of prisoners and other detainees and corpses must begin immediately after the entry into force of the agreement in Karabakh, with the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that “the agreement between the two parties to the conflict in Karabakh will allow to agree on the terms of the agreement with precision.”
The agreement between the two parties came as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call on the parties to the conflict in the disputed Karabakh region between Azerbaijan and Armenia to stop the fighting on humanitarian grounds.
A statement from the Kremlin confirmed that Putin held a series of telephone conversations with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Putin referred to “the need to stop the fighting in the region to exchange prisoners and corpses.”
The Kremlin statement added that “the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia are invited to Moscow on October 9 for consultations on these issues with the mediation of the Russian Foreign Minister.”
On September 27, armed clashes broke out on the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in Karabakh and adjacent areas, in the most dangerous escalation between the two sides in more than 20 years, amid mutual accusations of initiating clashes and attracting foreign militants.
Source: Agencies
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