Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry said it has agreed on a ceasefire in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region starting noon local time today, after the heaviest fighting in the disputed region since 1994.
The ministry said in a statement today that the operations of Azerbaijani and Karabakh troops “have been stopped.”
An Associated Press reporter in the front-line area of Azerbaijan heard shelling on Tuesday morning but there was no sound of fighting in the early afternoon.
Earlier, the Azeri Government said 16 Azerbaijani troops and one civilian were killed in the past two days of fighting against separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh. Fighting in what had been a dormant conflict erupted over the weekend with each side blaming the other for the escalation and using heavy weaponry.