Ruben Vardanyan was held as he tried to cross into Armenia.
Azerbaijan’s border guard has detained the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist government as he tried to cross into Armenia.
The arrest came after Azerbaijan’s Health Ministry revealed a total of 192 soldiers were killed and more than 500 were wounded during the country’s offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh last week.Nagorno-Karabakh officials said earlier that at least 200 people on their side, including 10 civilians, were killed and more than 400 were wounded in the fighting.
Azerbaijan and separatist officials have held two rounds of talks on the “reintegration” of Nagorno-Karabakh and its ethnic Armenian population into the mainly Muslim country but how exactly it would happen remains unclear. Armenia said that the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh’s approximately 120,000 people.
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