On 10 November 2020, at 00:00 Moscow time, the complete ceasefire provided for in the Statement by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia and the President of the Russian Federation took effect. Ilham Aliyev, Nikol Pashinyan and Vladimir Putin had signed the text the previous night; the Kremlin and the Azerbaijani presidency published it that morning. It is not a multilateral treaty deposited with the United Nations, not the 1994 Bishkek Protocol, and the Republic of Artsakh is not a party to the statement.

Point 1: a complete ceasefire and cessation of all hostilities in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; Azerbaijan and Armenia, the “Parties,” stop at their current positions. Point 2: Aghdam district shall be returned to Azerbaijan by 20 November 2020. Point 6: Armenia shall return Kalbajar district by 15 November 2020 and Lachin district by 1 December 2020. The Lachin corridor, 5 km wide, shall connect Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia without affecting the city of Shusha and shall remain under the control of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. Within three years a plan for a new route along the corridor; Azerbaijan shall guarantee the safety of persons, vehicles and goods in both directions.

Points 3–5: along the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor a Russian peacekeeping contingent of 1,960 military personnel with small arms, 90 armoured personnel carriers and 380 motor vehicles and special equipment shall be deployed in parallel with the withdrawal of the Armenian armed forces. The term is five years, automatically extended by a further five years unless either Party declares, six months before expiry, its intention to terminate the provision. A peacekeeping centre shall oversee the ceasefire.

Point 7: internally displaced persons and refugees shall return to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent districts under the control of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Point 8: exchange of prisoners of war, other detainees and bodies of the dead. Point 9: all economic and transport links in the region shall be restored. Armenia guarantees the safety of transport connections between the western regions of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in both directions; transport control is exercised by the Border Guard Service of the Russian FSB. Construction of new transport communications linking Nakhchivan, by agreement of the Parties. The statement does not use the name “Zangezur.”

The statement provides no parliamentary ratification procedure and does not refer disputes to the International Court of Justice. Later military events and casualty tallies are not given here as facts of the instrument on the day it was published.

Kremlin Senate Palace, Moscow. Seat of the Russian presidency, not the hall of a joint signing; the text was signed remotely. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

For context: 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement. The text: Statement by the President of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of the Russian Federation.