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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Gillil and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 20th of September, these are our main stories.

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We begin this podcast in a fragile region long contested by Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Just a day after it launched a military operation in the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh,

Azerbaijan has now halted the fighting.

This comes after the separatist forces in the Enkley, which is mostly inhabited by ethnic Armenians, agreed to a ceasefire.

The separatists say more than 30 people, including children, have been killed in a day of conflict in which they were out manned and outgunned.

The ceasefire put forward by Russian peacekeepers will see local fighters disarmed and talks between both sides on how to integrate the territory into Azerbaijan.

A special envoy to the Azeri president, Elchin Amebekov, confirmed the fighting was over in an interview with the BBC.

There is an end to the fighting. I can confirm to you because that was the agreement from both sides

that in case we receive the agreement of the Armenian separatists to lay arms and to produce their own statement, then, of course, we will reciprocate.

Both agreements have been reached with the facilitation of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, which is on the spot.

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