Armenia and Azerbaijan announced, this evening, Saturday, that they have reached an agreement on a humanitarian truce, starting at midnight.

In a statement, the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated: "The Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan have agreed on a humanitarian armistice, starting at 00:00 on October 18 local time."

The ministry indicated that this decision was taken in implementation of the joint statement issued on October 1 by the Presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, Russia, Vladimir Putin, France, Emmanuel Macron, the statement of the heads of the Minsk group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe issued on October 5, and the Moscow statement. On October 10th.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a similar statement confirming that an agreement on a humanitarian truce had been reached from the night.