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More than 65,036 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have come to Armenia, a spokeswoman for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday. To date, almost 120,000 ethnic Armenians have lived in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, representing virtually the entire population.
The region has been disputed between the two ex-Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia for decades. After a war in the early 1990s, the Armenians were in control. A separate state proclaimed on the soil of Nagorno-Karabakh was not recognized internationally. After another war in 2020, Azerbaijan recaptured parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and occupied Azerbaijani territories. Yerevan accuses Baku of planning “ethnic cleansing” after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive there last week.
After Azerbaijan’s military offensive on September 19, Nagorno-Karabakh’s pro-Armenian fighters had to accept a ceasefire agreement just one day later. Russia, as Armenia’s traditional protecting power, had let the Azerbaijanis have their way with their military offensive. Armenia’s Prime Minister Pashinyan therefore made bitter accusations against Moscow. Russia, in turn, accused Yerevan of making a “big mistake” with its recent turn to the West.
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