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Officials say Azerbaijan and Armenian forces have reached a cease-fire agreement to end two days of fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region that has been a flashpoint for decades

Azerbaijan and Armenia have been contesting this region of the South Caucasus since before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Peace talks between Azerbaijani officials and the breakaway region’s ethnic Armenian authorities were scheduled to take place on Thursday.

Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijani officials say that a cease-fire agreement has been reached to end the two days of fighting in the separatist region. The agreement was

A cease-fire agreement between ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan was reached Wednesday to end two days of fighting.

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A cease-fire agreement with Azerbaijan was reached on Wednesday to end two days of fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, local authorities and Azerbaijani officials said.

Thew deal was announced by the authorities of the separatist region of Azerbaijan and would take effect at 1 p.M. Local time, the reports said. 

Nagorno-Karabakh separatists announce a ceasefire, officially concluding Azerbaijan's anti-terror operation. Russian peacekeepers facilitate the agreement

The announcement of a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh toned down fears of a third full-scale war over the region in the southern Caucasus Mountains.

Karabakh teaches harsh lessons to those who accepted a ‘frozen conflict’. By agreeing to surrender their weapons, Armenian rebels in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan have ended their attempt to create a breakaway state. Although a so-called ‘frozen conflict’ enabled them to hold out for decades, their final defeat was swift, sudden and ultimately inevitable in the face of Azerbaijan’s determination to reassert sovereignty over its sovereign territory