Humanitarian truce in Karabakh agreed in Moscow

After more than ten hours of talks in Moscow, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, agreed on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh from 12:00 on 10 October. The talks were mediated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The truce was declared for humanitarian purposes: the exchange of prisoners of war, detainees and bodies of the dead with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The sides also agreed to begin substantive negotiations on a peaceful settlement in the format of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs. The parameters of the ceasefire are to be agreed separately.

Fighting has been going on since 27 September. Both sides report hundreds of military and civilian deaths.