Armenia grants Azerbaijan more than 120 places in Karabakh

Armenia grants Azerbaijan more than 120 places in Karabakh

In the conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh South Caucasus region, Armenia is relinquishing control of over 120 locations.

The Armenian government released a list on Monday with a total of 121 towns and villages that are falling under Azerbaijani control. In some cases, Armenia has lost control of the places during the fighting, and in some cases there is a surrender without a fight.

On the night of November 10, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an agreement with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to end the fighting with the mediation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Aliyev celebrated it as a “great victory”. Pashinyan, on the other hand, is faced with requests for resignation during the protests in Armenia because he is responsible for the “defeat” and loss of the territories.

Nagorno-Karabakh has been disputed for decades between the two former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. In the new war that began on September 27, Azerbaijan claimed much of the territory it had lost in the early 1990s. The country has been supported by its “brother state”, Turkey. Armenia sees Russia as its protecting power.

In a meeting with Aliyev in Baku on Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that conditions had to be created in Karabakh so that people of different faiths and ethnicities could live together peacefully. In the past there had been conflicts between Christian Armenians of Karabakh and Muslim Azerbaijanis. About 2,000 Russian peacekeepers are stationed in Karabakh to monitor the ceasefire. (aeg / sda / dpa)