Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Russia announces cease-fire between Armenia, Azerbaijan - AA

Russian Peacekeepers Already En-Route to Karabakh

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced early Tuesday that Azerbaijan and Armenia have signed a deal to end the conflict in the Upper Karabakh region.

Putin announced a new cease-fire between the two countries in a televised address,.

He said that under the deal, Azerbaijan and Armenia will remain in the positions they control.

Putin also said that Russian peacekeepers will be deployed on the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh and in the corridor where Karabakh connects with Armenia.

The displaced and refugees will return to Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions under the control of the UN Refugee Agency.

Transportation and communications control will be provided by the Russian Border Security Service, he said.

The deal will create the necessary conditions for a long-term and comprehensive solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis on a fair basis in line with the interests of the Armenian and Azerbaijani peoples, he added.

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  1. Russia has already dispatched its peacekeepers to the Karabakh conflict zone, according to an announcement from the country’s defense ministry.

    Russia IL-76 military places transported 1,960 peacekeepers and 470 military equipment, the Azatutyun.am’s Armenian service reported on Monday, citing the Russian defense ministry.

    The peacekeepers are headed to the Karabakh conflict zone in accordance to an agreement announced earlier Tuesday (local time) signed by the presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and Armenia’s prime minister Nikol Pashinyan. In addition to deployment of Russian peacekeepers, the agreement stipulates that the regions of Fizuli, Aghdam, Kelbajar, Lachin and Shushi will be surrendered to Azerbaijani control. At the same time, Russian border guards will now patrol the Armenian border and oversee the transport between Azerbaijan through Nakhichevan via Meghri.

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  2. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement on Tuesday to end six weeks of fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh in a deal Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan described as “unspeakably painful” in an emotional Facebook post.

    The post was the first indication of a deal, with Pashinyan saying the agreement would take effect from 1am on Tuesday (21:00 GMT on Monday) to end a conflict that has left at least 1,000 people dead.

    The deal was later confirmed by Azerbaijan and the Kremlin.

    “The signed trilateral statement will become a (crucial) point in the settlement of the conflict,” Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said in a televised online meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    The agreement came hours after ethnic Armenian officials in the disputed region confirmed that the key city of Shusha (known as Shushi in Armenia), the second-biggest city in the enclave, had been taken by Azeri forces. Azerbaijan also said on Monday it had taken dozens more settlements.

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  3. Russian soldiers and vehicles are wasting no time in deploying to Nagorno-Karabakh, the region disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan, for a peacekeeping mission following an armistice that ended hostilities there.

    Newest footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry shows vehicles and soldiers boarding Il-76 transport aircraft at the Ulyanovsk-Vostochny military base, before taking off for the Caucasus.

    “...beginning at [3:00am GMT] on November 10, 2020, the Russian Federation has begun to deploy a peacekeeping contingent in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, in parallel with the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a brief statement.

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    1. The armistice, which went into effect at midnight Moscow time on Tuesday, is supposed to end the six weeks of fighting over the disputed region, in which Azeri forces have made significant advances into territory held by ethnic Armenians since 1994.

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  4. Varias decenas de personas irrumpieron en el Parlamento y las oficinas gubernamentales en la capital de Armenia, Ereván, luego de que se anunciara un acuerdo de paz con Azerbaiyán sobre la región disputada de Nagorno Karabaj.

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    1. Según reportes, se escucharon disparos en las calles de Ereván cuando manifestantes enojados asaltaron el edificio del Gobierno, en busca del primer ministro Nikol Pashinián, quien poco antes anunció el "doloroso" acuerdo de paz.

      Los participantes derribaron las puertas de entrada y de las oficinas dentro del edificio y ocuparon la sala de conferencias.

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    2. Protests have erupted in Armenia’s capital following the announcement of a new Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire deal which is expected to end the conflict. According to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the text of the joint statement is extremely painful for himself and the Armenian people, but the decision had to be made.

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  5. In Azerbaijan, meanwhile, Aliyev said the agreement was “historic” and that Armenia had been forced to negotiate because of Azerbaijan’s military successes.

    “This statement has historic significance,” he wrote on Twitter. “This statement constitutes Armenia’s capitulation. This statement puts an end to the years-long occupation. This statement is our Glorious Victory!”

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  6. The peace deal takes effect on Tuesday from 01:00 local time (21:00 GMT Monday).

    Under the new deal, Azerbaijan will hold onto areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that it has taken during the conflict. Armenia has also agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas over the next few weeks.

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    1. Turkish will also take part in the peacekeeping process, according to Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, who joined President Putin during the address.

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  7. Armeniens Präsident Armen Sarkisjan hat eigenen Angaben zufolge aus den Medien von der trilateralen Vereinbarung zum Ende des Krieges in der umkämpften Kaukasus-Region Bergkarabach erfahren. Er habe an den Gesprächen dazu nicht teilgenommen, hieß es in einer Erklärung auf seiner Webseite. Nun wolle er umgehend politische Beratungen aufnehmen.

    „Ich habe aus den Medien von der Unterzeichnung der Erklärung über das Ende des Karabach-Krieges mit den Präsidenten Russlands und Aserbaidschans erfahren. Aus den Medien erfuhr ich von den Bedingungen für ein Kriegsende“, hieß es.

    Es habe mit ihm als Präsidenten der Republik „leider keine Konsultationen und Besprechungen zu diesem Dokument gegeben“. Sarkisjan sei an den Verhandlungen nicht beteiligt gewesen.

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    1. El presidente de Armenia, Armén Sarkisián, anunció la intención de iniciar consultas urgentes tras el acuerdo sobre el cese de hostilidades en Nagorno Karabaj, del que dijo haberse enterado por la prensa.

      "Me he enterado por los medios de la firma de una declaración sobre el cese de hostilidades […] De las condiciones del alto el fuego también me enterado por la prensa. Lamentablemente, nadie ha consultado ni discutido conmigo, presidente de la república, este documento, ni he tomado parte en conversaciones algunas", señaló Sarkisián en una declaración divulgada este martes 10 de noviembre.

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  8. El partido opositor Armenia Próspera (BHK) se propone impugnar en el parlamento el acuerdo sobre el cese de hostilidades en Nagorno Karabaj, dijo a Sputnik la diputada Ivetta Tonoián.

    "Estamos recogiendo las firmas para convocar una sesión extraordinaria con el objetivo de cancelar esta decisión", declaró Tonoián.

    Otra diputada, Naira Zograbián, admitió sin embargo que la oposición no está segura de lograr la cancelación del acuerdo.

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  9. El ministro de Exteriores de Turquía felicitó a Azerbaiyán por el éxito en los combates y en las negociaciones, tras el acuerdo de armisticio en Nagorno Karabaj.

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  10. Российские миротворцы отправились в Нагорный Карабах, чтобы проконтролировать заключенное между сторонами конфликта перемирие. Первые самолеты Ил-76 вылетели с аэродрома Ульяновск-Восточный еще ночью. В настоящее время взлетел уже десятый борт с людьми и техникой.

    "На борту воздушного судна личный состав миротворческого соединения, материальные средства и бронетранспортеры", – сообщает пресс-служба Минобороны РФ.

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  11. The Armenian Defence Ministry on Tuesday announced that hostilities on the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline had stopped.

    "Active hostilities along the entire frontline have ceased. Since 06:00 am (02:00 GMT) the situation has been stable. The Russian peacekeeping contingent is being deployed to Artsakh [the endonym of Karabakh]", a spokesman for the Armenian Defence Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan said.

    The statement comes hot on the heels of the country's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stating that clashes in the conflict-torn region "hadn't fully ceased".

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  12. Las fuerzas de paz rusas serán las únicas que se desplegarán en la línea que separa a las partes beligerantes en Nagorno Karabaj, aclaró el Ministerio de Exteriores de Rusia.

    "A nadie le quedarán las dudas cuando se publique el texto de la declaración [conjunta]. Quisiera reparar en las palabras del presidente de Rusia, se trata de las fuerzas de paz rusas en la zona, a lo largo de la línea de contacto en Nagorno Karabaj", dijo la portavoz de la Cancillería rusa, María Zajárova, en una entrevista con la emisora Ejo Moskvi.

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  13. Nagorno-Karabakh leader concedes military defeat: Blames Middle Eastern mercenaries, Covid-19 outbreak, fatigue & Turkish drones

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    1. Nagorno-Karabakh leader concedes military defeat: Blames Middle Eastern mercenaries, Covid-19 outbreak, fatigue & Turkish drones

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    2. He said the concessions made to Azerbaijan prevented a total loss of Nagorno-Karabakh, which would have happened in a matter of days, had the hostilities continued. The defending forces were exhausted by a Covid-19 outbreak and more than 40 days of fighting and being outgunned by their opponents, Harutyunyan explained. Turkish drones, and mercenaries from the Middle East fighting for Azerbaijan, had turned the tide of the battle, he said.

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  14. La presencia de las fuerzas de paz turcas en Nagorno Karabaj no fue acordada por los presidentes de Rusia, Armenia y Azerbaiyán, afirmó el portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov.

    "No hay una sola palabra sobre esto en el texto de la declaración que se publicó, las tres partes no lo acordaron y la presencia de los soldados turcos en Karabaj no fue coordinada", dijo Peskov a la prensa.

    Agregó que "de hecho, se trataba de crear un centro de monitoreo del alto el fuego en el territorio azerbaiyano, pero los matices de colocar este centro de monitoreo conjunto ya son objeto de un acuerdo separado".

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  15. In addition to the ceasefire, the statement contains a number of provisions that will determine the further activities of the three nations in the region, and is directed at maintaining the hard-won peace. Here are the main points from the document:

    The ceasefire will be observed by a 1,960 person-strong contingent of Russian peacekeeping forces and a dedicated centre for ceasefire control. Russian peacekeepers will be deployed along the line of contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and along the Lachin corridor.
    The statement does not suggest the participation of any other country's peacekeeping forces.
    The deployment of Russian peacekeepers will take place alongside the withdrawal of Armenian forces from the disputed region.
    Russian peacekeepers are to stay in their positions in Nagorno-Karabakh for five years with automatic five-year extensions should neither of the sides decide otherwise.

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  16. President Armen Sarkissian on Tuesday morning (local time) issued an announcement regarding the agreement that was reached between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia to end the military attacks in the Karabakh conflict zone.

    Sarkissian said that he, as president of the Republic of Armenia, was not consulted on the agreement. He insisted that any agreement on Artsakh—the fate of the Armenian people—must be reached based on the aspirations of the Armenian nation with the relevant consensus.

    He called for consultations to discuss to achieve solutions for the defense of our national interests.

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  17. France insists that Turkey should stop any kinds of provocations regarding the Armenian-Azeri conflict in the unrecognised republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, media reports say citing the Elysee's statement, which also has it that Ankara should make sure a future accord would not be compromised. The palace added it was studying the parameters of a newly-clinched ceasefire deal in the Nagorno-Karabakh area, noting that any lasting agreement in the region mostly populated by Armenians should by all means take into account Yerevan's interests.

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  18. Turkey Cannot Be Guarantor of Nagorno-Karabakh Settlement, Ex-US Special Envoy Says

    "Turkey was not mentioned at all in the [Russia-Azerbaijan-Armenia] agreement. So, certainly, it is not a guarantor in that sense … I think at this point ‘guarantor’ would be the wrong word to characterize Turkey’s role", Carey Cavanaugh, a former US special negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian conflicts said, noting that the Turks were the ones providing the biggest support to Baku and "encouraging Azerbaijan to keep fighting".

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  19. Police Units Gathering at Freedom Square in Yerevan Where Opposition Plans to Hold a Rally; Some People Detained, Correspondent Says

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  20. Even If Pashinyan Resigns, Agreement on Karabakh Cannot Be Changed, Spokeswoman for Azeri Foreign Ministry Tells DHA

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  21. Thousands of people have joined a rally in the centre of Armenia's capital, Yerevan, after the prime minister agreed a peace deal to end six weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Seventeen opposition parties took part in the protest and dozens of people were arrested amid demands for the Armenian leader to resign.

    Under the Russian-brokered deal, Azerbaijan keeps areas it has captured.

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  22. Urgent Parliamentary Session Scheduled For 20:00, Head of 'Enlightened Armenia' Says

    The agenda of the meeting is ready, it focuses on the demand to denounce the agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of the "Enlightened Armenia", Edmon Marukyan, said.

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    1. Оппозиционные политические силы Армении, которые в среду вечером продолжают акцию протеста у здания парламента в центре Еревана, потребовали у премьер-министра Никола Пашиняна до 24:00 (23:00 мск) подать в отставку. Демонстрацию показывают в режиме реального времени местные новостные порталы.

      "Мы требуем, чтобы Пашинян до 24:00 подал в отставку. Если нет, то соответствующее решение должен принять парламент страны. Мы будем ждать до 24:00, и если не будет отставки, то мы в после полуночи созовем пресс-конференцию и представим наши дальнейшие шаги. В любом случае, Пашинян должен уйти", - заявил представитель партии "Дашнакцутюн" Ишхан Сагателян.

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  23. Президент Армении призвал граждан поддерживать стабильность

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    1. Президент Армении Армен Саркисян и католикос всех армян Гарегин II в ходе встречи в среду призвали граждан поддерживать стабильность в стране. Об этом сообщает пресс-служба президентского аппарата.

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