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Armenia gives more than 120 places in Karabakh to Azerbaijan
In the conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus, Armenia is relinquishing control of more than 120 towns.
The Armenian government published a list on Monday with a total of 121 cities and towns that are under Azerbaijani control. In some cases, Armenia lost control of the places for the last time during the fighting, and sometimes there is a surrender without a fight.
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an end-fighting agreement with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the night of November 10. Aliyev celebrated this as a “great victory”. Pashinyan, for his part, faces calls to resign during the protests in Armenia because he is responsible for the “defeat” and loss of the territories.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been contested between the two former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan for decades. In the new war that began on September 27, Azerbaijan regained much of the territory it had lost in the early 1990s. The country was supported by its “sister state”, Turkey. Armenia sees Russia as its protective power.
In a meeting with Aliyev in Baku on Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that conditions must be created in Karabakh so that people of different religions and ethnicities could live together in peace. In the past there have been conflicts between the Christian Armenians of Karabakh and the Azerbaijani Muslims. Around 2,000 Russian peacekeepers are stationed in Karabakh to monitor the ceasefire. (aeg / sda / dpa)
