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Parts of the city of Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh destroyed by shelling by Azerbaijani artillery
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In the conflict over the South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan are making a fresh attempt to cease fire.
On the night of Sunday at midnight local time (10 p.m. CEST), a "humanitarian ceasefire" should come into force.
The foreign ministries of both countries announced this in the same wording.
A week ago, the hostile countries agreed on a cease-fire with the mediation of Russia.
However, this agreement was broken shortly after it came into force.
Both countries blamed each other for this.
Rocket attacks also killed at least 13 people on Saturday and far more were injured.
In the evening, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov telephoned his colleagues in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
He urged that both countries adhere to the ceasefire.
Decades of conflict over region
The two ex-Soviet republics have been fighting for decades for the mountainous region, in which around 145,000 people live.
Nagorno-Karabakh is controlled by Armenia, but under international law it belongs to the Islamic Azerbaijan.
In a war that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union some 30 years ago, Azerbaijan lost control of the area.
A fragile ceasefire has existed since 1994.
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