to deploy peacekeepers to Azerbaijan to monitor the cease-fire.Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
That war left not only Nagorno-Karabakh itself but substantial surrounding territory in Armenian hands. Heavy fighting that flared up Sept.
27 marked the biggest escalation of a decades-old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, killing hundreds and possibly thousands of people.
The truce last week stipulated that Armenia turn over control of some areas its holds outside Nagorno-Karabakh’s borders to Azerbaijan.