Type | Armistice |
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Context | 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh |
Signed | 20 September 2023 |
Effective | 21 September 2023 |
Mediators | Russian peacekeeping forces |
On 20 September 2023 a ceasefire agreement ending the Azerbaijani military offensive against the self-proclaimed ethnic Armenian Republic of Artsakh in Nagorno-Karabakh was reached. The agreement was brokered by the Russian peacekeeping contingent stationed in the region since the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020. Under the terms of the agreement, the Artsakh Defence Army was disbanded. The Russian peacekeepers sheltered at their base camp 2,261 people, of whom 1,049 were children.[1]