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An ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh drives his Soviet-made vehicle past Azerbaijani border guard servicemen after being checked at the Lachin checkpoint on the way from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, in Azerbaijan. | Photo Credit: AP Armenia and Azerbaijan on April 23 came a step closer toward normalizing relations after a bitter conflict over territory, as…
Nearly all of Karabakh’s estimated 120,000 residents fled the territory. Baku: A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway enclave. An Azerbaijani presidency spokesman told AFP that a “UN mission arrived in Karabakh on Sunday morning” — mainly to assess…
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Cars and buses carrying refugees crowded the highways on the fifth day of the exodus. (File) Kornidzor, Anindita: More than three quarters of the 120,000-strong population of the ethnic Armenian breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh had fled by Friday afternoon after defeat by Azerbaijan, a faster-than-expected mass exodus that looked likely to be total. Cars, buses…
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The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh said Thursday it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by year’s end after a three-decade bid for independence, while Armenian officials said over half of the region’s population has already fled. The moves came after Azerbaijan carried out a lightning offensive last week to reclaim…
Moscow has said Armenia only had itself to blame for Azerbaijan’s victory over Karabakh. Moscow and Washington have accused each other of destabilising the South Caucuses region, as thousands of ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh over ethnic cleansing fears. “We urge Washington to refrain from extremely dangerous words and actions that lead to…
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Azerbaijan regained control of its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a deadly two-day military offensive and held initial talks with representatives of its ethnic Armenian population on reintegrating the area into the mainly Muslim country, Azerbaijan’s top diplomat told the UN Security Council on September 21. Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reaffirmed Azerbaijan’s determination to guarantee…
Azerbaijan will hold peace talks with Armenian separatists today. New Delhi: Azerbaijan on Wednesday claimed victory in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and reclaimed the breakaway region after Armenian separatists agreed to a ceasefire. The conflict between the two nations has reportedly resulted in 200 deaths. What is Nagorno-Karabakh? Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, is a mountainous…
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