What a peace deal means for Nagorno-Karabakh. With Russian support, Armenia had won control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan inhabited by ethnic Armenians, after a yearslong war in the early 1990s that was precipitated by the breakup of the Soviet Union. It claimed its neighbour Azerbaijan had launched a military operation inside a breakaway region called Nagorno-Karabakh. Russian Air Force helicopters have not been seen in the specified area before, it added. Hundreds of people took to the streets and stormed government buildings soon after Armenias prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, announced the painful deal early on Tuesday. The agreement stipulates that "Internally displaced persons and refugees shall return to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas under the supervision of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner . 10 Nov 2020. Meanwhile, the official status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh have not yet been resolved, and are planned to be addressed in further peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Laying it to rest can pave the way for real reconciliation and reconstruction. Every day now, hundreds of people arrive in the center of Stepanakert in buses. Russia deployed nearly 2,000 peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh in the last two weeks after a peace deal that halted six weeks of fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces, locking in place . For six weeks, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a fierce war on his doorstep over disputed territories in and around the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians. Under its terms, Azerbaijan will hold on to several areas that it has taken during the conflict. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Stepanakert currently has a population of just over 50,000 people. This is an enclave in Azerbaijan, mostly populated by . In the Kalbajar District, not even the Dadivank Monastery's medieval stone walls feel like a sure thing. Over the weekend, Azerbaijan said it had taken control of the key town of Shusha, known as Shushi in Armenian. As in the conflicts in Libya and Syria, Russia and Turkey have once again found themselves backing opposing sides, and used their sway on local players to negotiate for peace deals that guarantee their own influence. Russia has a mutual-defense alliance with Armenia, but Mr. Putin insisted it did not apply to Nagorno-Karabakh. The vast majority of inhabitants in Nagorno-Karabakh are ethnic Armenian, yet Azerbaijan holds de facto control over parts of the region. I want to hope that we are seeing a learning process and a change in the Russian strategy in the post-Soviet space.. The unrest in Nagorno-Karabakh dates back to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the region, backed by Armenia, declared independence from Azerbaijan. . In reality, the EU is . The helicopter was downed using a portable surface-to-air missile, the ministry said, adding that two crew members were killed when the Mi-24 crashed in a mountainous area in Armenia and a third was taken to an airfield with injuries. The war ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal on November 10, 2020. Russia is the only country able to stop the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Apart from regaining territory it lost in a 1990s war with Armenia, Azerbaijan also appeared to have taken off the table questions of a referendum to decide the future of Nagorno-Karabakh that had been a feature of peace talks over the past two decades. Armenia also agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas over the next few weeks. . I dont think Aliyev needed much persuading, Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, said. Not a single word is said about this in the published statement, Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, told reporters on Tuesday. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. It follows six weeks of fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians. Hundreds of Russian peacekeepers were heading to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday after Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a peace deal to end weeks of fierce fighting over the disputed region. Early on Tuesday morning, the first of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers deployed toward the Lachin corridor, a lifeline between mainland Armenia and Stepanakert, the largest city in Nagorno-Karabakh. The contrast between the picturesque natural beauty of the landscape and the traces of the recent violence is harrowing. Congratulations to the people of Azerbaijan!, Aliyev added. The BBC's Orla Guerin in Baku says that, overall, the deal should be read as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia. The deal ends six weeks of heavy fighting, but is not a comprehensive peace treaty, said Olga Oliker of the International Crisis Group in a statement, adding that many details of the ceasefire remain vague. News footage on Tuesday showed peacekeepers from Russias 15th Motorised Rifle Brigade boarding military planes from Russia and later departing the Armenian city of Goris in military transports headed toward Nagorno-Karabakh. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. The deal stipulated they would be deployed to the Lachin corridor for five years, establishing Russias role as peacemaker in the region for the foreseeable future. Hundreds of Russian peacekeeping troops have been deployed to the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, following a deal to end conflict in the region. According to the Armenian government, around 90,000 ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh were displaced by the recent war and temporarily fled to Armenia. . On Stepanakert's main square, Anahit Grigoryan and her elderly mother Arega have just gotten off one of the buses from Yerevan. The cause of both scenes was the announcement of a peace deal. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a deal with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the military conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday morning local time after . The military defeat of Armenia means that the previous status quo is impossible to restore. Putin said in a statement on Tuesday that he hoped the deal will set up necessary conditions for long-lasting and full-scale settlement of the crisis over Nagorno-Karabakh. 10 Nov 2020 - 15:12 GMT. What else is to be done? Mr. Mikaelyan asked, after taking another look at the blown-out hotel room door, the TV ripped off the wall, the trails of blood still stuck to the third floor. The protesters who gathered here overnight accused the government of betrayal. It was a night of unrest and upset in Armenia's capital, where crowds of protesters stormed government buildings and the country's parliament. Ninety armoured personnel carriers will also deploy as part of the renewable five-year mission. Russian troops have since intervened repeatedly in troubled corners of the Caucasus, often under the moniker of peacekeepers but acting more like an invading army. Those tactics, which helped turn those countries into implacable adversaries, seem to have fallen out of fashion in the Kremlin, which analysts say is increasingly applying a more subtle blend of soft and hard power. Aren Melikyan reported from Yerevan, Arzu Geybulla and Gul Tuysuz reported from Istanbul, Mary Ilyushina reported from Moscow, Tim Lister reported from Spain and Ivana Kottasov wrote in London. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed an agreement to end military conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. At Martyrs' Alley - a memorial to Azerbaijan's fallen soldiers - there are surging crowds among a sea of flags. Armenia's prime minister said that his decision had been based on "deep analyses of the combat situation and in discussion with best experts of the field". . The region has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since 1994. The parliaments speaker, Ararat Mirzoyan, was caught up in the violence and beaten unconscious by an angry mob. The declaration of independence by the ethnic Armenian majority of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan, set off a war with tens of thousands of casualties that ended in an uneasy 1994 cease-fire. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced he had signed an unspeakably painful agreement with Russia and Azerbaijan to end the war over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, just hours after Azerbaijan claimed it captured the regions strategic city of Shusha. (Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto/Getty Images), People walk in a residential area that was allegedly damaged by shelling during a military conflict in self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Stepanakert, Azerbaijan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. There have been several flare-ups between the two sides since the armistice agreementin 2020. It was a strategic boon for Russia, giving Moscow a military foothold just north of Iran, but also a risk because it put Russian troops in the middle of one of the worlds most intractable ethnic conflicts. There is a real sense here that a key victory has been achieved after a very long fight. Azerbaijan's President Aliyev, meanwhile, said the agreement was of "historic importance," and amounted to a "capitulation" by Armenia. "Obviously it has to be acceptable to Azerbaijan as well.". That war ended by a Russia-brokered cease-fire, which saw Armenia ceding its controlover parts of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. In the words of the Russian envoy to Yerevan, "the status of Nagorno-Karabakh is an issue that should be left to the next generation." This ambiguity provides Moscow with additional leverage . In early November, Azerbaijani troops wrested the mountaintop citadel of Shusha from Armenian control, scaling the wooded slopes and fighting hand-to-hand in close combat through the streets. It seems Baku is trying to force the Armenian side to sign a peace treaty which would see Karabakh's full return into Azerbaijani sovereignty. Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in the dying days of Soviet rule, but Azerbaijan regained much of the lost territory in a six-week conflict in 2020, ended by a Russia-brokered truce . NATO: Finland forges ahead of Sweden toward membership, Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy calls for ICC Russia probe, Russian troops step up fight to cut off Bakhmut supply lines. Ahead of the district's handover, the area surrounding Dadivank monastery is now almost deserted. Broers said that the Russian peacekeepers could look like a colonising force. 2. 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