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Azerbaijan army enters first territory surrender by Armenia: Nagorno-Karabakh Fight

Azerbaijan’s army said Friday it had entered the district of Agdham, an area of Azerbaijan’s territory surrender by Armenia as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

The handover of Agdham, which was captured by Armenian forces in July 1993 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, will be followed by the Kalbajar district, wedged between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, on November 25, and the Lachin district by December 1.

Armenian forces and ethnic Armenian residents packed up and left the district over the past few days ahead of Friday’s deadline, which was delayed from Sunday for humanitarian reasons.

Most of the town of Agdham, however, was destroyed to discourage Azerbaijani residents from returning; it remains uninhabited.

The latest conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh broke out in late September. The disputed region is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan in law, but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians for the past 30 years.

Thousands of people have been killed in 6-weeks of fighting and more than half of the region’s 150,000 population was displaced.

The warring parties, at odds over the territory since before the end of the Soviet Union, finally agreed to end hostilities last week under a Russian-brokered accord, made as Azerbaijan progressed rapidly in the combat.

As part of last week’s agreement, Armenia agreed to return some 15 to 20% of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory captured by Azerbaijan in recent fighting, including the historical town of Shusha.

The peace deal has sparked protests in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s ouster.

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