Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ordered to erase all Armenian inscriptions from the monuments in the occupied territories of the Artsakh Republic. Armenian Ambassador to the Netherlands Tigral Balayan wrote about this on his Twitter page.
“The dictator of Azerbaijan personally gives instructions to erase the Armenian traces from the occupied territories of Artsakh. The war crimes of Aliyev’s regime continue,” Balayan wrote.
It should be reminded that yesterday Aliyev and his wife visited the occupied Hadrut region. The footage of his visit shows that the churches no longer have crosses.
On 27 September, the Azerbaijani side launched hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh, occupying most of it, including the city of Shushi.
On 9 November, Russian President Vladimir Putin, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a joint statement on the cessation of hostilities that started on 27 September.
The trilateral statement states in particular that Kelbajar will be returned to Azerbaijan by 15 November (later that period was extended by 10 days), Aghdam region by 20 November, and Lachin region by 1 December, leaving a corridor of 5 km wide, which will ensure Armenia’s connection, but will not touch Shushi.
In addition, along with the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin corridor, Russian peacekeeping forces of 1960 troops with firearms, 90 armored vehicles and 380 vehicles and special equipment are deployed. The peacekeepers remain for five years with the possibility of automatic extension, unless the parties announce the termination of this provision six months before the expiration of the next five years.
It is also mentioned that internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas, exchanging prisoners of war and exchanging other detainees, and unblocking all economic and transport ties in the region is carried out.
