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Tens of thousands have taken refuge in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where Russia has mediated an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan that ended the fight against thousands of dead in six weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Reuters and EFE.
“Serious humanitarian problems have arisen in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The number of refugees, according to various data, exceeds tens of thousands,” Putin told a meeting on the situation in this Azerbaijani province with a majority Armenian population, writes agerpres .ro.
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According to the Kremlin leader, the death toll from the fighting that began in late September is more than 4,000 dead, including civilians, and more than 8,000 wounded.
He also announced the creation of a Humanitarian Center for Nagorno-Karabakh, which will mainly deal with the return of refugees and will help Armenia and Azerbaijan to interact with international organizations.
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As of Tuesday, when the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan was signed, with the mediation of Putin, Russia sent to Nagorno-Karabakh some of the 1,960 soldiers that will form the peacekeeping contingent envisaged in this document, negotiated without the participation of the states. United and France, the other two co-chairs – along with Russia – of the Minsk Group to resolve this old conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had informed the United States and France of the ceasefire agreement.
The agreement stipulates that Armenia will withdraw its troops from the Azerbaijani territories it took control after the war in the 1990s to ensure territorial continuity with the Nagorno-Karabakh province. However, Armenia will maintain control of much of the province and Russian troops will secure a five-kilometer-wide strip that will keep Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh connected.
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Meanwhile, many Armenians in the territories to be handed over to Azerbaijan are leaving these areas, which is not in the agreement, but they say they are afraid to stay there.
Numerous bodies of Armenian fighters were still visible Friday along a highway in a mountainous area. According to the leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, the process of exchange of bodies between the two parties in conflict has begun, which will be coordinated by the Russian peacekeeping force, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Nagorno emergency service. -Karabakh.
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The signing of the agreement triggered violent demonstrations in Yerevan in which the opposition demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pasinian, considered the main person responsible for this military failure. Following hostilities that began in late September, the Azerbaijani army gradually conquered various towns and territories, forcing the ethnic Armenian forces to withdraw, and the Azerbaijani troops reached Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh province.
Pashin’s prime minister admitted in a message to the nation on Thursday that the agreement was disadvantageous for Armenia, but emphasized that the decision to sign it was inevitable, otherwise there was a risk of the total loss of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
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“Why was this agreement signed, which is disadvantageous for Armenia? This came after the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that an urgent cessation of the war was needed and President Artzah (Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenian) said that in a few hours we could lose Stepanakert, ”Pasinian explained.
Then, he continued, after the fall of Stepanakert would follow the loss of the cities of Askeran and Matakert, the “rear” of Armenia. “After the loss of these cities, all the defense lines would have come under siege from the enemy, which would have meant that more than 20,000 soldiers had been surrounded, in danger of being killed or made prisoners of war,” insisted the prime minister Armenian. . “By signing this shameful document (…) I understood that the probability of my death, both political and physical, is very high, but the lives of 25,000 soldiers were more important,” he concluded, adding that the signed document. it is just a truce, and Nagorno-Karabakh remains an unsolved problem.
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