Karabakh Armenians: details of ceasefire with Azerbaijan still need to be worked out

"We have an agreement on the cessation of military action but we await a final agreement - talks are going on," David Babayan, an adviser to "Artsakh President" Samvel Shahramanyan, told Reuters. "We need to talk through many questions and issues." "There has not been a final agreement yet," Babayan said.

The ethnic Armenian leadership of breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh has agreed a ceasefire with Azerbaijan but the details, including the surrender of weapons, still need to be worked out, an adviser to the region's self-styled president told Reuters on Thursday. "We have an agreement on the cessation of military action but we await a final agreement - talks are going on," David Babayan, an adviser to "Artsakh President" Samvel Shahramanyan, told Reuters. "We need to talk through many questions and issues."

"There has not been a final agreement yet," Babayan said. When asked about giving up weapons, Babayan said his people could not be left to die, and so would need security guarantees first.

"A whole host of questions still need to be resolved," he said.