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At the same time, he emphasized Russia's important role in resolving the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh: “In this regard, President Vladimir Putin's mediation aimed at ending hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh deserves the highest praise.

After a war in the late 1980s and early 90s, when the region’s majority Armenian population sought to secede from the newly independent country of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was hotly contested by the two former Soviet republics.

After several hours, the Azerbaijani presidential office said in a statement that the negotiations had concluded and that fuel, medical supplies and humanitarian aid would be sent to to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Aliyev insisted that the Azerbaijani army struck only military facilities during the fighting, but separatist officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said Stepanakert and other areas came under “intense shelling".

Al Jazeera gains exclusive access to the largest city in Nagorno-Karabakh after tens of thousands of its resident fled.

Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh - Around 60,000 are estimated to have been killed in this territory dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan that has fluctuated between border dispute and all-out war for the past 40 years.

Armenia - Ethnic Armenians who fled Nagorno-Karabakh embrace upon their arrival in Kornidzor, September 26, 2023.

ARMENIA HAS URGED the United Nations to send a mission to ensure the safety of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh after the territory was seized back by Azerbaijan, which promised to respect minority rights.

A view through a car window shows abandoned vehicles in Stepanakert following an Azeri military operation and a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, October 2, 2023.

Azerbaijan has sent troops backed by artillery attacks into Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh, warning that its operation would not stop until Armenian forces surrender.

Azerbaijan won back territory and by the time both sides agreed to sign a Russian-brokered peace deal in November 2020, it had recaptured all the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh held by Armenia since 1994.

But Russia, the traditional power broker in the region, stepped in to impose an armistice that injected Russian peacekeeping forces to protect the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Close to 100 Armenian Americans and supporters gathered in front of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Tuesday to rally for the thousands of ethnic Armenians in the contested and besieged region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Concern was growing for ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday as Azerbaijani forces tightened their grip on the breakaway region.

Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh gather next to their belongings near a tent camp after arriving to Armenia’s Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023.

Ethnic Armenian soldiers sit in a military truck pulling a cannon on a road during the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020.

Ethnic Armenians who fled should be provided with all necessary information and clear guidelines on resuming their residency in Nagorno-Karabakh, and how their rights, including to property and social security entitlements, will be assured.

GORIZ, Armenia – The leader of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh signed a decree on Thursday officially dissolving the breakaway state.

In an official statement it was literally said that “the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) ceases to exist”.

In part of the speech posted on social media, Joly is seen saying that she plans to raise the Nagorno-Karabakh situation in upcoming summits held by the G20, G7 and United Nations.