In Nagorno-Karabakh, where the navy confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan has escalated, a ceasefire will start to function from 12:00 Saturday, October 10. The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Jeyhun Bayramov agreed on this in Moscow at a assembly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The talks in Moscow lasted greater than 10 hours.

A ceasefire is being launched for the change of detainees and our bodies of the useless via the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Its phrases will be agreed moreover, the Russian Foreign Ministry notes in its assertion. In addition, Yerevan and Baku, with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, will proceed to “substantive negotiations,” the Russian Foreign Ministry added.

The scenario in Nagorno-Karabakh escalated on September 27 after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale navy operation to regain management of this area, inhabited primarily by ethnic Armenians. Both sides accuse each other of focusing on civilian targets.

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Karabakh as an apple of discord

In the early Nineteen Nineties, as a results of the armed battle with Armenia and the Armenian inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan misplaced management over this territory. The ceasefire between Armenia and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan, on the other, was established in May 1994.

Until now, the negotiation course of geared toward discovering methods of a peaceable settlement of the battle was mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group, which contains Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Turkey. The co-chairs are Russia, France and the United States. Azerbaijan doesn’t take into account the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic a get together to the battle and refuses to barter with it.

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