{"id":401208,"date":"2020-10-10T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T07:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401208"},"modified":"2020-10-10T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T07:23:29","slug":"azerbaijan-armenia-agree-to-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/azerbaijan-armenia-agree-to-cease-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan, Armenia agree to cease-fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed Saturday to a cease-fire that will begin Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Hostilities will be halted at midday (0800GMT) to allow an exchange of prisoners and the recovery of dead bodies in Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross will act as an intermediary in the humanitarian operation as part of the cease-fire and talks will begin between the two nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference following 10-hour talks in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>A trilateral meeting Friday between Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia took place in Moscow with Lavrov, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting began Sept. 27, when Armenian forces targeted civilian Azerbaijani settlements and military positions in the region, leading to casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the two former Soviet republics have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Upper Karabakh, or Nagorno-Karabakh, an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple UN resolutions, as well as international organizations, demand the withdrawal of the invading forces.<\/p>\n<p>The OSCE Minsk Group &#8212; co-chaired by France, Russia, and the US &#8212; was formed in 1992 to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, but to no avail. A cease-fire, however, was agreed to in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Many world powers, including Russia, France and the US, have urged an immediate cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, meanwhile, has supported Baku&#8217;s right to self-defense and demanded the withdrawal of Armenia&#8217;s occupying forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: AA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed Saturday to a cease-fire that will begin Saturday. Hostilities will be halted at midday (0800GMT) to allow an exchange of prisoners and the recovery of dead bodies in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Red Cross will act as an intermediary in the humanitarian operation as part of the cease-fire and talks will begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":401209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401210,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401208\/revisions\/401210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}