Germany calls for rights of civilians to be guaranteed amid concerns for Armenians in disputed region
Nagorno-Karabakh separatists were expected to lay down their arms on Saturday under an agreement reached with the Azerbaijan government following itsMoscow confirmed that the rebels had surrendered the first weapons on Friday and that the process is expected to continue through the weekend, with the help of Russian peacekeepers.
The separatists have said they are in Russian-mediated talks with Azerbaijan to organise the withdrawal process and the return of civilians displaced by the fighting. They say they are discussing how citizens’ access to and from Nagorno-Karabakh would work. An AFP reporter in the separatist stronghold said food, water, medicine and fuel for the panicked population were scarce and displaced people had arrived in the city from surrounding villages.
Baku said it had started sending in urgently needed aid on Friday as it seeks to cement its grip over the region it lost control of in a war in the 1990s.Pashinyan said the “situation remains tense” in the disputed territory despite a Russian-brokered truce largely sticking. “There is a hope for some positive dynamics,” he told a cabinet meeting on Friday.
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