Karabakh and Azerbaijani officials discuss humanitarian issues
YEREVAN, September 25. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh representatives and Azerbaijani officials met on Monday in the village of Ivanyan, the place of deployment of Russian peacekeepers, to discuss a number of humanitarian issues with the mediation of the Russian side, the Nagorno-Karabakh Information Center reported.
It specified that the sides discussed, among other things, the process of searching for the dead and missing after the hostilities, emphasized the need to restore natural gas supplies, uninterrupted operation of the energy and water supply systems.
The representatives of Artsakh stressed the necessity of transporting the wounded, pregnant women, children and citizens in need of urgent medical assistance to the specialized medical institutions of the Republic of Armenia.
The parties reached an agreement on this issue and outlined the agenda of the next meeting.
On September 19 Azerbaijan launched an "anti-terror" operation in the region demanding that Karabakh's forces raise a white flag, disband their armed forces and dissolve their "illegal regime".
After 24-hour fierce fighting the ethnic Armenian authorities in Stepanakert gave in. Under the terms of the truce, outlined by Azerbaijan and the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent on the ground, Karabakh armed forces must commit to being completely disbanded as well as disarmed.
According to the Nagorno-Karabakh human rights defender’s office, more than 10 thousand people have been evacuated from the communities seized by Azerbaijanis, several thousand cannot find their missing relatives -women, children and elderly people.
As of 21:30 September 20, the number of casualties stood at 200, including children, the number of wounded at more than 400.
Azerbaijani officials and Karabakh’s Armenian representatives had three meetings for "re-integration" talks in the Azerbaijani towns of Yevlakh and Shushi. -0-
