A ceasefire agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh starting on October 10 has been reached after trilateral consultations in Moscow.
MOSCOW, October 10.
/TASS/. A ceasefire agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh starting on 12:00 on October
10 has been reached after trilateral consultations in Moscow between foreign
ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov said on Saturday.
"A ceasefire is
declared to begin on October 10 at 12:00 with the humanitarian aim of
exchanging prisoners of war and other captured persons as well as to exchange
bodies of victims with the facilitation of the International Committee of the
Red Cross and in line with its regulations," Lavrov stated early on
Saturday citing a joint statement, signed by the foreign ministers of Armenia
and Azerbaijan.
"Detailed
parameters of the ceasefire regime will be agreed upon in the near
future," the Russian minister stated citing the signed document.
The document also
states that Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to begin practical talks with the
mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group representatives on the peace settlement in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
"The Republics
of Azerbaijan and Armenia, with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs
and based on the principles of conflict settlements, begin practical
negotiations with the main task of reaching the peace settlement as soon as
possible," the statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry reads.
"All involved
parties have confirmed their adherence to the invariability of the negotiating
process," the statement added.
Azerbaijan and
Armenia agreed to begin practical talks with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk
Group representatives on the peace settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh, a joint
statement, adopted by the Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers,
said.
The Russian,
Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers - Sergey Lavrov, Jeyhun Bayramov and
Zohrab Mnatsakanyan correspondingly - held talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict settlement for more than 10 hours. Their meeting started at 16.30
Moscow time and Foreign Minister Lavrov appeared to journalists to read out
provisions from the adopted statement late after 2:00 a.m. on Saturday.
Renewed clashes
between Azerbaijan and Armenia erupted on September 27, with intense battles
raging in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The area experienced
flare-ups of violence in the summer of 2014, in April 2016 and this past July.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have imposed martial law and launched mobilization
efforts. Both parties to the conflict have reported casualties, among them
civilians.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-10-2020
