Nagorno-Karabakh: cease-fire between Azerbaijan and Armenia from noon

Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian foreign ministers during talks on October 9, 2020 in Moscow.

AFP Photos / RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / Handout

Text by: RFI Follow

2 min

Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed on Saturday on a ceasefire starting at noon in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the grip of the fighting, announced the Russian diplomacy after negotiations in Moscow between the leaders of the Armenian and Azerbaijani diplomacy.

Publicity

Read more

The diplomatic efforts of the previous days have borne fruit.

A cease-fire has been agreed between the two belligerents "for humanitarian purposes".

Negotiations to find a solution to the conflict will even be held between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

These advances take place thanks to the meeting

.

Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs had invited his counterparts to talks.

After two weeks of conflict, this ceasefire has revived hope for peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

More information to come ...

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

• Armenia

• Azerbaijan

• Russia

• Diplomacy

• Nagorno-Karabakh

On the same subject

Hope for peace revives in Nagorno-Karabakh situation

Armenians in Lebanon support Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh: meeting with an Armenian, who left France to return to fight at home