Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense published the names of those who lost their lives during the fighting between Baku’s regular troops and Armenians, the news agency AZERTAC reported on Wednesday.

Baku announced that it began an “anti-terrorist operation” in Nagorno-Karabakh on September 19 to “achieve the withdrawal of Armenian troops” from that territory.

Yerevan, in turn, denied the presence of its troops in the region and branded the operation as an aggression against the inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced the following day that an agreement had been reached on a ceasefire in the enclave, the conditions of which included, in particular, the disarmament and disbandment of Armenian illegal armed formations in the region.

On Thursday, September 21, representatives of Baku and the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh held a first round of reintegration talks.

The Nagorno-Karabakh region has been a focus of conflict between Azeris and Armenians since it decided to secede from the then-Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in 1988.

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