A truce has been declared in Nagorno

A truce has been declared in Nagorno -Karabakh. This was reported by both the Armenian Hetq.am and the Azerbaijani Trend with reference to the Ministry of Defense, respectively, Karabakh and Azerbaijan. The battles were discontinued from noon to local time (11 in the morning Moscow).

The press secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Karabakh, Saint Asratyan, explained that the truce was announced in connection with the negotiations of resolving the conflict, which on Tuesday began the Minsk group of the OSCE in Vienna.

Intensive battles resumed in Nagorno -Karabakh on the night of April 2. According to the UN Office for the coordination of humanitarian issues, 33 people died on the weekend as a result of battles in the region, and more than 200 were injured . The total number of inhabitants of the settlements affected by the war amounted to about 14.4 thousand people. At the same time, 50 residents of Karabakh were asked for temporary asylum in Armenia.

On Monday, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan announced at a meeting with ambassadors of the OSCE members that in the event of a large -scale military operations between Armenians and Azerbaijani, Armenia recognizes the independence of Karabakh . At the same time, he referred to the 1994 agreement recorded in the 1994 agreement to ensure the safety of the residents of the region.