US-backed truce breaks down in Nagorno-Karabakh hours after starting

Smoke rises as targets are hit by shelling during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh near Terter in Azerbaijan, October 23 2020. Picture: REUTERS/UMIT BEKTAS

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote earlier on his Facebook page that the Armenian side “continued to adhere to the ceasefire”. A third ceasefire since October 10 was agreed to on Sunday after separate talks in Washington between US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Pompeo has since left Washington, landing on Monday in India on the first leg of a five-day Asian trip.Minsk Group, formed to mediate the conflict and led by France, Russia and the US, also participated in Sunday's talks and is scheduled to meet the Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers again in Geneva on October 29.

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