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13 to add Russias ceasefire announcement.Russia said Tuesday it had negotiated a ceasefire between ex-Soviet Armenia and Azerbaijan, after fresh border clashes in between the historical rivals left lots dead.Armenia and Azerbaijan traded blame for exchanges of fire around the contested Nagorno-Karabakh area that started at about midnight local time and which Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated killed a minimum of 49 people.

Yerevan later accused Baku of trying to advance inside Armenian area and said it was seeking military support from Moscow.

We expect that an agreement reached as a result of Russian mediation on a ceasefire from 9:00 a.m.

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13 this year will be carried out in full, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a declaration, adding that it was very worried by the uptick in fighting.The Kremlin hailed Moscows operate in rapidly protecting the ceasefire.

It is hard to overestimate the function of the Russian Federation and [President Vladimir] Putin personally.

Clearly, the president is striving to assist de-escalate tensions on the border, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov informed reporters on Tuesday.Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan and Russian equivalent Sergei Shoigu had earlier spoken by phone and agreed on joint steps to support the circumstance, the defense ministry in Yerevan stated.

Armenias security council, led by the Caucasus republics prime minister and president, collected to conjure up a mutual help and cooperation treaty with Russia, which define joint defense and military assistance in case of hostility toward signatories, the Armenian government stated in a statement.The statement included that Armenia will likewise rely on the Moscow-led security bloc of 6 previous Soviet republics, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), in addition to the UN Security Council for assistance.The CSTOs irreversible council held an emergency situation meeting to discuss the border flare-up later on Tuesday.Pashinyan held telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S.

State Secretary Antony Blinken.The flare-up in between regional opponents Armenia and Azerbaijan is the latest in a series of reported shootouts along their shared border considering that the end of the 2020 war between Yerevan and Baku over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenian authorities have connected clashes to Russias intrusion of Ukraine and pro-government Azeri media seeking to challenge the 2,000-member Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Ukraine war has sustained reports that Russia was withdrawing at least part of its peacekeepers into Ukraine and contributed to an escalation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, where ceasefire offenses are common.Last week, Armenia accused Azerbaijan of eliminating among its soldiers in a border shootout.

In August, Azerbaijan said it had lost a soldier and the Karabakh army stated 2 of its soldiers had actually been eliminated and more than a lots injured.The neighbors battled two wars-- in the 1990s and in 2020-- over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijans Armenian-populated enclave.Six weeks of fighting in the fall of 2020 claimed more than 6,500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire.Under the offer, Armenia ceded swathes of territory it had managed for decades and Moscow released about 2,000 Russian peacekeepers to manage the vulnerable truce.During EU-mediated talks in Brussels in May and April, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accepted advance discussions on a future peace treaty.Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

The ensuing dispute declared around 30,000 lives.AFP contributed reporting.