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Ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh
MOSCOW. Feb 27: Guns fell silent In Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday morning as Armenia and Azerbaijan began a 72-hour ceasefire under Iranian efforts to end the republics' vicious war over the region, officials reported, say” AP.
file truce took effect a day after especially intense fighting was reported in the predominantly Armenian enclave, which lies within Azerbaijan.
Il was worked out in a deal worked out over the telephone late Wednesday with the help of Foreign Minister All Akbar Velayatl of Iran, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency and the Azerbaijani mission In Moscow.
The sides were expected to begin talks immediately on the exchange of hostages. Azerbaijani mission spokesman Rafael Guseinov said meetings already had begun among police official* from both sides.
The truce is Io Iasi until 9 am (0500 GMT) Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported, quoting the press service of Azerbaijan's president. Ayaz Mulalibov.
It is among the few formal cease fires achieved in the bloody confrontation over Nagorno-Karabakh flared In 1988 after ethnic Armenian in the enclave demanded unification with Armenia.
More than 1.000 people have died in the fighting, which has defied settlement efforts by Soviet. Russian and Kazakh officials. Conflict between predominantly Christian Armenians and mostly Muslim Azeris goes back centuries. Thursday's cease fire, reported by Russia's Interfax aqd Irani Islamic Republic News Agency, followed an escalation of assaults by both skies in and around the disputed region.
Azerbaijan claimed that an Armenian attack on the city of Khodzhaly before dawn Wednesday left about 100 people dead. 250 wounded and 300 missing. Armenia denied the claim and said the residents were evacuated.
Russian television later reported that 300 rockets had struck Stepanakert. the Nagorno-Karabakh capital, tn a 24-hour period.
The Armenian mission tn Moscow said at least six people were killed. Azerbaijani officials did not confirm the attacks.
It was impossible to independently verify the reports: both side* have issued inflated casualty reports in the past
If the report about Khodzhaly is true, the attack would be the worst yet tn the war over Nagomo Karabakh
Iranian interest tn the con fhct follows its effort, and those by other Middle Eastern countries, to exercise more in fluence In Azerbaijan and other heavily Muslim former Soviet states
Ve lay all arrived in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku on Monday tn an attempt to broker a cease-fire. He also planned to visit the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Intense fighting has prevented him from visiting Nagorno-Karabakh.
France on Wednesday pro posed an emergency peacekeeping and humanitarian plan to ease the conflict. French government spokesman Jack Lang said the plan would be presented to the European Community.