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Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
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- The Territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has re-erupted with heavy clashes.
- Armenia and Azerbaijan are part of Transcaucasia or South Caucasia.
- They have been locked in a territorial dispute over Nagorno Karabakh region for almost four decades.
- Nagorno-Karabakh region has 95% of the population as ethnically Armenian.
- It is controlled by them but it is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan.
- The dispute first started in 1988 and over the years it has caused massive human rights violations, a severe refugee crisis.
- Following this, a provisional ceasefire agreement called the Bishkek Protocol was signed in 1994 by the representatives of Armenia, unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic but not effective.
- The Bishkek Protocol was signed on May 5, 1994 in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
- Though Nagorno-Karabakh region is internationally recognised as a part of Azerbaijan, it remains disputed because it is controlled by ethnic Armenians.
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