INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
13 to add Russias ceasefire announcement.Russia said Tuesday it had negotiated a ceasefire between ex-Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan, after
fresh border clashes in between the historical rivals left lots dead.Armenia and Azerbaijan traded blame for exchanges of fire around the
contested Nagorno-Karabakh area that started at about midnight local time and which Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated killed a
Yerevan later accused Baku of trying to advance inside Armenian area and said it was seeking military support from Moscow
We expect that an agreement reached as a result of Russian mediation on a ceasefire from 9:00 a.m
Moscow time (06:00 GMT) on Sept
13 this year will be carried out in full, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a declaration, adding that it was very worried by the
uptick in fighting.The Kremlin hailed Moscows operate in rapidly protecting the ceasefire
It is hard to overestimate the function of the Russian Federation and [President Vladimir] Putin personally
Clearly, the president is striving to assist de-escalate tensions on the border, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov informed reporters on
Tuesday.Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan and Russian equivalent Sergei Shoigu had earlier spoken by phone and agreed on joint steps
to support the circumstance, the defense ministry in Yerevan stated
Armenias security council, led by the Caucasus republics prime minister and president, collected to conjure up a mutual help and cooperation
treaty with Russia, which define joint defense and military assistance in case of hostility toward signatories, the Armenian government
stated in a statement.The statement included that Armenia will likewise rely on the Moscow-led security bloc of 6 previous Soviet republics,
the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), in addition to the UN Security Council for assistance.The CSTOs irreversible council
held an emergency situation meeting to discuss the border flare-up later on Tuesday.Pashinyan held telephone call with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron and United States State Secretary Antony Blinken.The flare-up in between
regional opponents Armenia and Azerbaijan is the latest in a series of reported shootouts along their shared border considering that the end
of the 2020 war between Yerevan and Baku over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenian authorities have connected clashes to Russias intrusion of Ukraine and pro-government Azeri media seeking to challenge the
2,000-member Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh
The Ukraine war has sustained reports that Russia was withdrawing at least part of its peacekeepers into Ukraine and contributed to an
escalation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, where ceasefire offenses are common.Last week, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of eliminating
among its soldiers in a border shootout
In August, Azerbaijan said it had lost a soldier and the Karabakh army stated 2 of its soldiers had actually been eliminated and more than a
lots injured.The neighbors battled two wars-- in the 1990s and in 2020-- over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijans Armenian-populated
enclave.Six weeks of fighting in the fall of 2020 claimed more than 6,500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire.Under the offer,
Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had managed for decades and Moscow released about 2,000 Russian peacekeepers to manage the vulnerable
truce.During EU-mediated talks in Brussels in May and April, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
accepted advance discussions on a future peace treaty.Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan when the
Soviet Union collapsed in 1991
The ensuing dispute declared around 30,000 lives.AFP contributed reporting
