A total of 2,906 have so far entered the country from the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh looks on from a car upon arrival in Goris today.
Several days after the fighting, the first refugees from the breakaway state arrived in Armenia yesterday and a total of 2,906 have so far entered the country, the Armenian government said in a statement today. Azerbaijan launched a lighting operation on Sept 19 to seize control of the territory, forcing the separatists to lay down their arms under the terms of a ceasefire agreed the following day.Six Russian peacekeepers, who had been deployed to the region as part of a deal to end a previous conflict in 2020, were among the dead.
She was being housed temporarily in a hotel in Goris but said she had no relatives she could stay with.At the Kornidzor border crossing yesterday, a man in his thirties arriving with the first group of refugees said he regretted having left behind his livestock and the grave of his three-year-old daughter.Pashinyan faces protests
The two leaders are scheduled to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a new natural gas pipeline and open a modernised Azerbaijani military complex, a show of Turkish force contrasting sharply with Russia’s apparent withdrawal from the region. Armenia is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation – a Russian-dominated group comprising six post-Soviet states that had pledged to protect each other if attacked.
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