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The United States, Azerbaijan and Armenia announced that they had reached a ceasefire agreement in the Karabakh region, which would be the third of its kind and the first mediated by Washington.
In a joint statement issued by the US State Department and the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia, the three parties said: “The humanitarian ceasefire will take effect at 08:00 local time on October 26.”
The statement added: “The United States has participated in intense negotiations between foreign ministers and heads of the Minsk Group to bring Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a peaceful solution to the conflict in Karabakh.”
This humanitarian truce is the third of its kind announced in Karabakh, after two similar agreements reached on October 10 and 17, mediated by Russia.
This comes after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held separate talks earlier in the week in Washington with his Armenian counterparts Zograb Mnatsakyanian and Azerbaijani Jihon Piramov.
Subsequently, on October 23, US President Donald Trump announced “very good progress” in resolving the conflict in Karabakh without clarifying the details of the process, while the US President’s administration confirmed that it urged Azerbaijan for the fire to cease.
In response, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the United States should remain as mediator in the conflict, “neutral, renew and even intensify its efforts to pressure both sides to find a common solution,” while the Kremlin stated that he was not aware of the developments that Trump spoke of.
Source: Russia today
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