Baku is considering the possibility of an amnesty for Karabakh residents who gave up their weapons, said Assistant to the Azerbaijani President for Foreign Policy Affairs Hikmet Hajiyev.
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“Even in relation to former… combatants, if they can be classified that way…, we are considering the possibility of an amnesty or also referring to an amnesty,” Gadzhiev said.
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As the adviser notes, Baku will allow members of the Karabakh armed formations who gave up their weapons to leave.
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“At the moment, we see that some individual groups… and officers… have made public statements that they will not accept our conditions and will continue to resist,” he added.
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On September 19, Azerbaijan began “local anti-terrorist measures” to restore the constitutional order in Karabakh. Yerevan called what was happening aggression and stated that there were no Armenian units in Karabakh. A day later, through the mediation of Russian peacekeepers, an agreement was reached on a ceasefire in Karabakh; among the conditions of the truce, in particular, the disarmament of Armenian forces and the withdrawal of heavy equipment was outlined.
