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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Nagorno-Karabakh’s breakaway government says it will dissolve itself

People sit on the back of a truck
Refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh arrive in Kornidzor, Armenia, on Wednesday. Photograph: Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters

The breakaway government of Nagorno-Karabakh has announced it will dissolve itself and that the unrecognised republic will cease to exist by 2024, formally ending more than 30 years of separatist rule.

The president of Armenia’s self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Samvel Shahramanyan, signed a decree to dissolve all state institutions by 1 January 2024, Karabakh Armenian authorities said in a statement. The republic would cease to exist from that day, the decree said.

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