Beth -Louisa Qadri / Tbilisi-Georgia:

Georgian  Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official statement Tuesday, that Georgia supports dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and hopes the agreement reached between the two countries to end the military conflict over Nagorno Karabakh will facilitate a complete settlement of the conflict.

"We are ready to facilitate the implementation of the peace process with the international community. We are confident that the active efforts of the international community will lead to the establishment of a lasting peace that will open new opportunities for the entire region," the ministry said in a statement.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili also noted the end of the "tragic war" on Twitter, saying that a new era has now begun in the Caucasus.

"A new era begins in the Caucasus. I congratulate our friend countries Armenia and Azerbaijan on ending a tragic war, and I thank all mediators. My sympathy is with the families of the victims. There is no alternative to peace and stability."

Armenia,  Azerbaijan and Russia, on Tuesday, signed an agreement to end six weeks of
fighting in Nagorno Karabakh, in a deal described by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as "indescribably painful."

According to the agreement, Azerbaijan will hold on to the Nagorno-Karabakh regions it occupied during the conflict while Armenia will withdraw from several other remote areas during the next few weeks.

The Prime Minister of Armenia said that his decision was based on "deep analyzes of the combat situation and discussions with the best experts in the field." "This is not a victory, but there will be no defeat until you consider yourself defeated," Pashinyan added.

The agreement comes after six weeks of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The region is internationally recognized as Azerbaijani, but has been administered by Armenians since 1994. An armistice was signed with Russian mediation at the end of the war in the early 1990s but there was no peace agreement.

Although both sides took steps to reduce tensions last year, fighting broke out at the end of September and several attempts to end the conflict failed. Until now, the exact number of the dead has not been announced. Both sides denied targeting civilians, but accused each other of doing so.

The peace agreement went into effect on Tuesday at 01:00 local time (21:00 GMT on Monday). It was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The Armenian leader of Nagorno Karabakh, Araik Harutyunyan, said that a ceasefire was inevitable after the loss of Shusha, the second largest city in Karabakh (known as Shushi in Armenian). He noted on Facebook that the battles were already taking place in the outskirts of the main city of Karabakh, Stepanakert, and if the conflict had continued, the entire Karabakh would have been lost. "We will have much more losses," he said.

The new ceasefire agreement sparked anger in Armenia, as a large crowd gathered in the Armenian capital Yerevan to protest the agreement, according to local media.
They stormed the parliament and government buildings chanting, "We will not give it up while many Azerbaijani citizens took to the streets in the capital, Baku, and other Azerbaijani cities, rejoicing the regaining of the Karabakh lands and finally defeating the Armenians, as they said.