Armenia PM orders end to Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said early Tuesday that he had ordered an end to fighting with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Pashinian said on Facebook that he signed an agreement with the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia to halt the fighting that has raged since late September.

He wrote that the decision was “extremely painful for me personally and for our people”.