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In Baku, they said they showed humanism and agreed to evacuate the civilian population from Kalbajar until November 25. According to Azerbaijan, Armenia must also liberate the Aghdam and Lachin regions, as well as the territories of the Gazakh region.
Armenia appealed to Azerbaijan through Russia with a request to grant a postponement for the withdrawal of troops and civilians from the Kalbajar region until November 25. This was stated by the assistant to the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev Hikmet Hajiyev, on November 15, reported the state agency AZERTAC.
“The climate is not easy, there is only one road in this direction and the capacity of the roads is low. With this in mind, Azerbaijan showed humanism and agreed to evacuate the civilian population from Kelbajar before November 25. The obligations remain in force, it is not necessary to sign a special declaration of renewal, “the agency writes.
In addition to the Kelbajar region, Armenia must liberate the Aghdam region and territories in the Gazakh region before November 20 and before December 1. – Lachin region, according to the text of the statement, which was published on the Kremlin’s website. According to Hajiyev, the terms will remain the same for these territories. In particular, the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces from Aghdam on November 20 and from Lachin on December 1 is expected.
In 1991, Nagorno-Karabakh, with the support of Armenia, declared its independence from Azerbaijan. This led to hostilities that lasted until 1994. The armed conflict ended with the signing of the Bishkek Protocol on an armistice and a ceasefire, but from time to time armed clashes broke out between the parties. During the conflict, more than 30 thousand people died in the region. Azerbaijan considers Nagorno-Karabakh as a territory occupied by Armenia.
On September 27, 2020, the biggest conflict in recent years broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry accused Armenia of “large-scale provocation”, shelling of Azerbaijani army positions and announced the beginning of a “swift counteroffensive”. The Armenian authorities, in turn, declared that the Azerbaijani army had launched an offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh. During the conflict, the parties used tanks, heavy artillery and aircraft. There were reports of soldiers and civilians killed and injured.
Martial law was introduced both in Armenia and in certain regions of Azerbaijan. Both countries involved in the conflict announced mobilization.
Agreements on an armistice were reached in Nagorno-Karabakh on several occasions, but each time they were violated. On October 9, during the negotiations in Moscow, the representatives of Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting at 12:00 on October 10. However, after the start of the truce, both parties accused each other of breaking it.
Nagorno-Karabakh “authorities” representative Vahram Poghosyan reported on 9 November that the army of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh republic no longer controls the key town of Shusha, and Azerbaijani troops were on the outskirts of Stepanakert. , the capital of Karabakh.
On the night of November 10, Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a declaration to end the war in Karabakh. According to the agreements, 1960 Russian peacekeepers, 90 armored personnel carriers, 380 military and special vehicles will be deployed along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Prime Minister of Armenia said that this decision was extremely difficult for him, but that there was no alternative. Aliyev stressed that Pashinyan was “forced” to sign a document “more beneficial” for Baku. Following the signing of agreements to resolve the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, representatives of the Armenian opposition demanded Pashinyan’s resignation.
On the morning of November 10, the Russian Defense Ministry had sent 10 Il-76 military transport aircraft with peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh. On November 11, a plane commanded by the Russian peacekeeping forces landed at Erebuni airport.
Aliyev spoke about the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers in the region. According to him, the peacekeeping mission will be jointly led by Russia and Turkey.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the agreements reached on the solution of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh do not foresee the appearance of Turkish peacekeepers there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed that there will be no Turkish peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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