Nagorno karabach nature. The un chief said in a statement that he welcomes and is relieved by the agreement on a cessation of hostilities in the nagorno karabakh conflict. The fighting between azerbaijan and armenia over the mountainous territory of nagorno karabakh has been going on and off since the early 1990s. At the end of september 2020 media outlets reported on the escalation of a conflict between armenia and azerbaijan in nagorno karabakh the territory of the republic of artsakh nagorno. Conflict ravaged nagorno karabakh has finally entered what is hoped to be a lasting ceasefire after the warring parties concluded a peace agreement brokered by russia.
The region is mostly mountainous and forested. Nagorno karabakh is a disputed territory internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but mostly governed by the unrecognised republic of artsakh formerly named nagorno karabakh republic nkr since the first nagorno karabakh war. Under the accord azerbaijan and armenia will stop at their current positions and exchange prisoners and almost 2000 russian peacekeepers will be deployed to nagorno karabakh. Agorno karabakh in the caucasus is at the heart of a conflict between armenia 3 million inhabitants and azerbaijan 10 million.
United nations secretary general antonio guterres on friday welcomed the agreement on a cessation of hostilities in the nagorno karabakh conflict zone. Azerbaijan does not disclose its military casualties while russia has estimated 5000 deaths on both sides. The nagorno karabakh defence ministry says 1177 of its troops have been killed. Although it is often portrayed as such the nature of the nagorno karabakh conflict is anything but frozen.
At the centre of this ongoing conflict is the contested territory of nagorno karabakh internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan but mainly inhabited and de facto controlled by ethnic armenians. Start of the 2020 armenian protests. Azerbaijan retains control over the territories that it recaptured during the war. Nagorno karabakh is a highly contested landlocked region in the south caucasus of the former soviet union.
Whats new this time is the use of drones. Around 30000 people were killed in the 1991 94 war. However this territory has no strategic importance no natural resources and it is of no economic value except perhaps symbolic. The two camps have rejected each on eachother the responsibility for the hostilities.
Ceasefire agreement signed on 10 november 2020.
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