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President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Samvel Shahramanyan signed a decree according to which the unrecognized republic will cease to exist on January 1, 2024. The residents of Nagorno-Karabakh face a pivotal choice: either to accept Azerbaijan’s terms of reintegration or to relocate to Armenia or other countries.
Accordance to Shahramanyan’s decision, all state institutions and organizations within the unrecognized republic are set to be dissolved by January 1, 2024. Azerbaijani authorities ensure favorable conditions for the reintegration of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. However, a significant part of the local population did not believe the Baku officials. To date, tens of thousands of Karabakh Armenians are already seeking refuge in neighboring Armenia, which refused to defend them in battles. The exodus is driven by fears of potential ethnic cleansing which could break out on unofficial level amid the national tensions.
The Armenian authorities reported that about 65 thousand Armenians have already left Karabakh for Armenia, which is about half of the population of the unrecognised republic.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was officially declared on September 2, 1991. Its thirty-two years long history ended by short but bloody battle. 192 people were killed and 511 wounded among Azerbaijani servicemen during the “anti-terrorist operation”, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health reported. Among the civilians, one person was killed and another was injured. In Nagorno-Karabakh, 200 people were dead and 400 others were wounded. Russian peacekeepers also suffered losses.
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