Cessation of hostilities due to start on Monday a day amid accusations on both sides that peaceful settlement is being blocked
A humanitarian ceasefire will take effect on Monday morning in the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The announcement came in a joint statement on Sunday from the US State Department and the two governments. It comes after US secretary of state Mike Pompeo met the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington on Friday, and a meeting of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, formed to mediate the conflict and led by France, Russia and the US.
