Talks are held on Nagorno-Karabakh’s fate as Azerbaijan claims full control of the breakaway region

By The Associated Press

Representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan government have held a first round of talks on the future of the breakaway region that Azerbaijan now says it fully controls following a military offensive this week. President Ilham Aliyev’s office said the talks on the ethnic Armenian region had ended and that discussions were held on the “reintegration” of Nagorno-Karabakh and the local Armenian population into Azerbaijan. Aliyev’s office said regional representatives asked for fuel and food, and Azerbaijani officials agreed to provide humanitarian aid, including energy to heat schools. On Wednesday, local Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabkah agreed to disarm and disband following shelling and drone attacks launched by Azerbaijan this week in the decades-long conflict.