Armenia and Azerbaijan under the mediation of Russia have agreed to end the Karabakh war. The 9 point agreement was announced in the early hours of Tuesday morning (local time).
The text of the agreement published on local media outlets is the following:
"We, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan I. G. Aliyev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikolai Pashinyan and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin announced the following:
1. A complete ceasefire and all hostilities in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are announced from 00:00 hours Moscow time on November 10, 2020. The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia, hereinafter referred to as the Parties, stop at their positions.
2. The Aghdam region and the territories held by the Armenian Party in the Gazakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan shall be returned to the Azerbaijan Party until November 20, 2020.
3. Along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor, a peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation is deployed in the amount of 1,960 servicemen with small arms, 90 armored personnel carriers, 380 units of automobile and special equipment.
4. The peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation is being deployed in parallel with the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces. The duration of the stay of the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation is 5 years, with automatic extension for the next 5-year periods, if none of the Parties declares 6 months before the expiration of the period of intention to terminate the application of this provision.
5. In order to increase the effectiveness of control over the implementation of the agreements by the Parties to the conflict, a peacekeeping center is being deployed to control the ceasefire.
6. The Republic of Armenia will return the Kelbajar region to the Republic of Azerbaijan by November 15, 2020, and the Lachin region by December 1, 2020, leaving behind the Lachin corridor (5 km wide), which will ensure the connection of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and at the same time not will affect the city of Shusha.
By agreement of the Parties, in the next three years, a plan for the construction of a new traffic route along the Lachin corridor, providing communication between Stepanakert and Armenia, with the subsequent redeployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent to protect this route will be determined.
The Republic of Azerbaijan guarantees traffic safetyalong the Lachin corridor of citizens, vehicles and goods in both directions.
7. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent areas under the control of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
8. There is an exchange of prisoners of war and other detained persons and bodies of the dead.
9. All economic and transport links in the region are unblocked. The Republic of Armenia provides transport links between the western regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic in order to organize the unimpeded movement of citizens, vehicles and goods in both directions. Control over transport communication is carried out by the bodies of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia.
By agreement of the Parties, the construction of new transport communications linking the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic with the western regions of Azerbaijan will be provided.
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Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has just posted on his facebook page that he has signed an agreement to end the Karabakh War. According to preliminary details under the 9 point agreement, Russia will deploy 2000 peacekeepers to supervise the agreement.
In his facebook post Pashinyan said “I signed a statement to end the Karabakh war with the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan from 01.00. The text of the already published statement is incredibly painful for me and our people.
I made this decision as a result of an in-depth analysis of the military situation and the appreciation of the people who have the best position in the situation. Also, based on the belief that this is the best solution in the current situation. I will write a message about this in the coming days.
This is not a victory, but there is no defeat until you find out for yourself. We will never know ourselves and this should be the beginning of our national unity, the era of renaissance.
We need to analyze our years of independence in order to plan our future and not repeat the mistakes of the past.
I kneel before all our victims. I bow before all our soldiers, officers, generals, volunteers who defended and defended their homeland with their lives. "
Details are still coming in.
source: commonspace.eu
