{"id":40,"date":"2020-11-25T03:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=125144"},"modified":"2020-11-25T03:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:04:34","slug":"azerbaijani-forces-enter-second-district-returned-by-armenia-under-nagorno-karabakh-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/11\/25\/azerbaijani-forces-enter-second-district-returned-by-armenia-under-nagorno-karabakh-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani Forces Enter Second District Returned By Armenia Under Nagorno-Karabakh Truce"},"content":{"rendered":"
Azerbaijani forces have entered the second of three districts to be handed back by Armenia as part of a deal that ended weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on November 25 that units of the Azerbaijani army had entered Karvachar (which Azerbaijanis call Kelbacar) under the deal signed this month by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia.<\/p>\n
Karvachar, wedged between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, was initially scheduled for handover on November 15 but the deadline was postponed by Azerbaijan for humanitarian reasons.<\/p>\n
“Engineering work has been completed to ensure the movement of our units in this direction, the difficult mountain roads along the route of the troops’ movement are being cleared of mines and prepared for use,” the ministry statement said.<\/a><\/p>\n Photos and videos were to be presented during the day, the ministry said.<\/p>\n Armenia agreed to hand over three districts ringing Nagorno-Karabakh — Agdam, Karvachar, and Lachin — after nearly three decades under Armenian control as part of a truce signed two weeks ago that stopped six weeks of military conflict over the breakaway region.<\/p>\n Agdam was ceded on November 20 and Lachin is to be handed over by December 1.<\/p>\n The implementation of the Russian-brokered agreement was discussed during separate phone calls between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev<\/a> and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian<\/a>, the Kremlin said on November 24.<\/p>\n