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Tens of thousands gathered the day before the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia were meeting to work on a peace agreement that many Armenians oppose.

Turkey gave substantial military aid to Azerbaijan in the war, and the aid is now being reciprocated: Companies close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have received at least hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts, particularly in the reconstruction of the territories in Karabakh that Azerbaijan retook in the war.  

The Council today decided to deploy up to 40 EU monitoring experts along the Armenian side of the international border with Azerbaijan with the objective of monitoring, analysing and reporting on the situation in the region.

The two-month EU mission aims to help the arch rivals delineate their common borders, the European Council says.

The EU is demanding a probe into possible war crimes following a video of people dressed in Azerbaijani uniforms executing Armenian prisoners of war.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Wednesday of violating a cease-fire agreement that ended two days of warfare this month - the second such violation in five days.+

United Nations welcomes ceasefire after 176 soldiers killed in two days of fighting, which each side blames on the other.

Armenia has appealed to the Collective Security Treaty Organization to help it restore its territorial integrity, following Azerbaijani attacks.

European Council President Charles Michel said after a trilateral meeting in Brussels with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia on August 31 that the Caucasus rivals had agreed to accelerate "substantive work" toward a peace treaty.

Washington is closely following the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and urges immediate steps to reduce tensions and avoid further escalation, the U.S. mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on August 9.