Representatives of Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists from Nagorno-Karabakh began talks this Wednesday after a 24-hour military offensive by Baku to regain control of the separatist territory, the official Azerbaijani agency announced.
The talks are taking place in the town of Yevlakh, about 300 kilometers west of Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku.
Azerbaijan’s official agency, Azertac, published images showing six negotiators sitting around a table.
Among them was a representative of Nagorno-Karabakh, David Melkoumian, according to the French agency AFP.
Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh announced Wednesday that they agreed to lay down their arms and negotiate the reintegration of the part of the South Caucasus territory they controlled into Azerbaijan.
The decision came a day after Azerbaijan launched a military operation in Azerbaijani territory with a majority Armenian population, which the separatists say caused two hundred deaths and more than four hundred injuries.
Source: TSF
