Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to visit Azerbaijan on Monday in a show of support to its ally.
The Azerbaijani military routed Armenian forces in a 24-hour blitz last week, forcing the separatist authorities to agree to lay down weapons and start talks on Nagorno-Karabakh’s “reintegration” into Azerbaijan after three decades of separatist rule.
The Armenian government said 4,850 Nagorno-Karabakh residents had fled to Armenia as of 12pm on Monday.“It was a nightmare. There are no words to describe. The village was heavily shelled. Almost no one is left in the village,” said one of the evacuees who spoke to the Associated Press in the Armenian city of Kornidzor and refused to give her name for security reasons.
Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by the Armenian military, in separatist fighting which ended in 1994. Armenia charged that the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh’s approximately 120,000 people. France, which has a big Armenian diaspora, has for decades played a mediating role in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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