Armenian Security Council discussed situation in and around Armenia and Artsakh

YEREVAN, January 4. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired January 3 a meting of the Security Council, Pashinyan's press service reported. It said Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) President Arayik Harutyunyan also took part in the meeting that discussed a number of issues related to the situation in and around Armenia and Artsakh, as well as humanitarian problems and security.

The press service of the Artsakh President said that issues related to the exchange of prisoners of war and the bodies of the killed soldiers as well as the problems of displaced persons were also discussed.

From September 27 to November 9,  Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire  front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and  phosphorus weapons. 

On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities in Artsakh. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.  

A Russian peacekeeping contingent has been deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.--0-