Azerbaijani army enters the second Nagorno – Karabakh district / Article / LSM.lv

The Azerbaijani army entered the second of the three Nagorno-Karabakh districts on Wednesday, November 25, which Armenia must return to Baku control under a ceasefire agreement. Peace in Azerbaijan is expected to be lasting, but Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians are concerned about their security.

Azerbaijan has regained control of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Kelbaja district since Wednesday, an army arrives. This is just one of the territories that Armenia must return to Baku control under the ceasefire agreement reached through Russia.

A few days ago, in the first of the three Nagorno-Karabakh districts returned by Armenia, In the district of Agdam, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived.

“I am in Agdam. I have visited the Agdam Mosque and raised the Azerbaijani flag. We have returned to Agdam. Congratulations to everyone on this historic event after 30 years of occupation,” said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

The people of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, hope that the peace will be lasting.

“We pray to God that there will be no more difficult days for everything to disappear. I hope that there will be peace and that our lands will be completely liberated,” said Zakid Teimurov, a resident of Baku.

“There are very beautiful places. I have not been there, but I will definitely visit if God gives and the refugees return there, “said a resident of Baku.

Aliyev has promised to rebuild the infrastructure of the regions regained by Baku and to allow the return of Azerbaijani refugees who left Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s war after Armenians took control.

But now ethnic Armenians are concerned about their safety in places that have now become border villages.

“The general of Azerbaijan told me, ‘The land is yours, go and work, no one is bothering you.’ .

Many local Armenians now see Russian peacekeepers as a guarantor of security.

“There is always danger. The war is only stopped, but not over. How can I sleep peacefully when the enemy is only 200-300 meters away? Shouldn’t there be a neutral zone?”

asked local farmer Yuri Gasparjan.

Intense fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resumed in late September, claiming hundreds of lives over several weeks. Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized by the international community as part of Azerbaijan.

CONTEXT:

On the morning of September 27 this year on the actual border of Nagorno-Karabakh Heavy fighting began, The Azerbaijani army managed to seize about a fifth of the Armenian forces previously controlled territory.

There have been hostile relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia since the 1990s, when the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region was fought. The region is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but is mainly inhabited by ethnic Armenians.

The ceasefire agreement stipulates that Armenians will now return three areas adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.

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