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Traces of the conflict: bullet holes on a wall in Nagorno-Karabakh
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More than a hundred people are said to have been killed and hundreds injured in the fighting in the Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh - now one party to the conflict has agreed to begin negotiations on a ceasefire.
Armenia is ready for talks within the so-called Minsk Group of the Organization for Cooperation and Development in Europe (OSCE), said the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan.
The group consists of Russia, France and the USA.
She had recently requested an immediate ceasefire.
From Azerbaijan, which has been fighting with Armenia for six days, there was initially no reaction to the advance.
Both countries had declared martial law in the conflict.
Nagorno-Karabakh is predominantly inhabited by Armenians.
Armenia is allied with Russia and is supported in the conflict by France, while Azerbaijan has aid pledges from Turkey.
Turkey rejects OSCE mediation.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A total of about 150,000 people live there.
The region in the South Caucasus broke away from Azerbaijan in 1991, but is not recognized as independent by any state.
Last Sunday the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh turned into violence.
The Russian news agency Interfax has now reported that the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defense has announced the deaths of 54 other soldiers.
This increased the number of soldiers killed to 158.
The military in Azerbaijan spoke on Friday of heavy artillery fire in some villages on its territory.
Civilians are said to have been killed and injured.
The Armenian authorities had previously spoken of 120 dead, most of them soldiers.
Azerbaijan reported that 19 civilians were killed and 55 injured.
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