The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war was an armed conflict between Azerbaijan, supported by Turkey, and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh together with Armenia. It was the latest escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but partially governed by Artsakh. A ceasefire agreement was signed between the President of Azerbaijan,. Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, and President of. Russia, Vladimir Putin, ending all hostilities in the area.
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The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war was an armed conflict between Azerbaijan, supported by Turkey, and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh together with Armenia. It was the latest escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but partially governed by Artsakh. Turkey provided military support to Azerbaijan, although the extent of this support has been disputed. The war was marked by the deployment of drones, sensors, long-range heavy artillery and missile strikes, as well as by state propaganda and the use of official social media accounts in online information warfare. Total casualties on both sides may be in the low thousands. A ceasefire agreement was signed between the President of Azerbaijan,. Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, and President of. Russia, Vladimir Putin, ending all hostilities in the area from 00: 00, 10 November 2020 Moscow Time. Under the agreement, the warring sides will keep control of their currently held areas. Azerbaijan will also gain land access to its Nakhchivan exclave bordering Turkey and Iran. Approximately 2,000 Russian soldiers will be deployed as peacekeeping forces along the Lachin corridor for a mandate of at least five years. The current conflict has its roots in events following World War I and today the region is de jure part of Azerbaijani, although large parts are de facto held by the internationally unrecognised Republic of artsakh. The territorial ownership of Nagorno- Karabakh is fiercely contested between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
Three ceasefires brokered by Russia, France and the United States failed to stop the fighting. The 1994 Bishkek Protocol brought the fighting to an end and resulted in significant territorial gains for both Armenia and Azerbaijan. In early 1992, the region descended into outright war following the Soviet Union’s collapse, with approximately 7,000,000 Azerbaijanis and 300,000–500,000 Armenians from both Azerbaijan and Armenia taking part in the conflict. The referendum in the region was boycotted by the Azerbaijan SSR, which then constituted around 22.8% of the region’s population; 99% of participants voted in favor of the Republic of Artsakh. In the early 1990s, a series of pogroms between 1988 and 1990 against Armenians in Sumgait, Ganja and Baku, and against Azerbaijanis in Gugark and Stepanakert. Following the revocation of the autonomous status, a referendum was held in December 1991. The region was declared an autonomous oblast within the AzerbaijanSSR, despite having an ethnic Armenian majority. Azerbaijan rejected the request several times, and ethnic violence began shortly thereafter. In 1994, Armenia and Artsakh introduced martial law and total mobilization, while Azerbaijan introduced a curfew and partial mobilization. Armenia will return the surrounding territories it occupied in 1994 to Azerbaijan. The war resulted in the displacement of approximately 7,000 Armenians and 300,000 Azerbaiis.
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