BAKU, Sept 21 — Azerbaijan said yesterday it had regained control over breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh for the first time in decades, after separatist Armenian fighters agreed to lay...
BAKU, Sept 21 — Azerbaijan said yesterday it had regained control over breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh for the first time in decades, after separatist Armenian fighters agreed to lay down their arms in the face of a military operation.
A day after Azerbaijan launched its military operation in the region, Baku and the ethnic Armenian authorities in Karabakh announced a ceasefire deal had been brokered by Russian peacekeepers to stop the fighting. Late on Wednesday, Armenia’s defence ministry said that Azerbaijan had fired on its positions along the border between the arch foes. Such skirmishes are frequent along the border.Under the truce deal, the separatists said they had agreed to fully dismantle their army and that Armenia would pull out any forces it had in the region.
A separatist official said over 10,000 people have been evacuated from Armenian communities in Nagorno-Karabakh and “forced to find a shelter” elsewhere in the territory. Demonstrators threw bottles and stones at police as they slammed the government’s handling of the crisis, while officers used stun grenades and made arrests.
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