Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed a joint agreement aimed at resolving their dispute over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh at talks near Moscow.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian, agreed to intensify their efforts to find a political settlement.
It is the first time in nearly 15 years that such a deal has been reached.
Sporadic clashes have continued over Nagorno-Karabakh, despite the signing of a ceasefire agreement in 1994.
Before the truce, several years of fighting had left some 30,000 people dead and forced more than one million from their homes.
In 2006, an overwhelming majority of Nagorno-Karabakh residents - mostly ethnic Armenians - voted in favour of declaring a sovereign state. The declaration has not been internationally recognised.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart, Serzh Sarkisian, agreed to intensify their efforts to find a political settlement.
It is the first time in nearly 15 years that such a deal has been reached.
Sporadic clashes have continued over Nagorno-Karabakh, despite the signing of a ceasefire agreement in 1994.
Before the truce, several years of fighting had left some 30,000 people dead and forced more than one million from their homes.
In 2006, an overwhelming majority of Nagorno-Karabakh residents - mostly ethnic Armenians - voted in favour of declaring a sovereign state. The declaration has not been internationally recognised.
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