Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh have announced they will dissolve the breakaway statelet they defended for three decades, where more than half the population has fled from since Azerbaijan launched a lightning offensive last week.
The president of Armenia's self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Samvel Shahramanyan, signed a decree that means the self-declared Republic of Artsakh will “cease to exist” by 1 January, in what amounts to a formal capitulation to Azerbaijan.
