2023 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement

2023 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement
Type	Armistice
Context	2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh
Signed	20 September 2023
Effective	21 September 2023
Mediators	Russian peacekeeping forces

On 20 September 2023 a ceasefire agreement ending the Azerbaijani military offensive against the self-proclaimed ethnic Armenian Republic of Artsakh in Nagorno-Karabakh was reached. The agreement was brokered by the Russian peacekeeping contingent stationed in the region since the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020. Under the terms of the agreement, the Artsakh Defence Army was disbanded. The Russian peacekeepers sheltered at their base camp 2,261 people, of whom 1,049 were children.^[1]

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