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What the region's news looked like on 12 November 2020
Summary
A look back at two developments from the days before 12 November 2020: the Karabakh ceasefire deal and EU sanctions on Belarus's leadership.
What was shaping the region's agenda as of 12 November 2020? Two developments from the preceding days framed it: an agreement ending the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and new European Union sanctions on Belarus.
Karabakh ceasefire
On 9 November 2020, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that he had signed a deal with Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war by Tuesday morning. A Kremlin spokesman confirmed it. Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, said a trilateral agreement had been signed, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian peacekeepers would be deployed.
The agreement cedes several districts to Azerbaijan, including the Lachin District. It also provides for a transport corridor through Armenia linking Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan.
Sanctions on Minsk
On 6 November 2020, the European Union announced sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his son Viktor. The measures also covered police chief Ivan Tertel and Chief of Staff Igor Sergeenko.
