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What the Karabakh ceasefire deal meant by 10 November 2020
Summary
A look back at the trilateral agreement announced on 9 November 2020 and what its terms set out.
What did the region wake up to on 10 November 2020? A deal to end the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, which Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on 9 November he had signed with Azerbaijan and Russia, was due to take effect by that Tuesday morning.
A Kremlin spokesman confirmed the agreement. Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, described it as a trilateral agreement. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian peacekeepers would be deployed.
What the terms set out
The agreement ceded several districts to Azerbaijan, including the Lachin District. It also provided for a transport corridor through Armenia, linking Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan.
A parallel track in Europe
Separately, on 6 November 2020 the European Union announced sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son Viktor, police chief Ivan Tertel and Chief of Staff Igor Sergeenko, in the context of the Belarusian protests.
Together, the two developments showed how events in the wider region were moving in the days before 10 November 2020: a war ending under terms involving Russia, and Brussels widening its measures against Minsk.
