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Valery Melnikov
俄羅斯，衛星通訊社

亞塞拜然與亞美尼亞人對納戈爾諾卡拉巴赫地區的領土爭端，在經過三十年平靜後於9月再度爆發。1994年，在第一次納戈爾諾卡拉巴赫戰爭之後，當時住在亞塞拜然國土內的納戈爾諾卡拉巴赫的亞美尼亞人單方面宣布獨立建國。隨後的幾十年中，納戈爾諾卡拉巴赫這個地區問題並沒有解決，零星的軍事衝突不斷發生。2020年，雙方互相指控對方開啟爭端，導致了第二次納戈爾諾卡拉巴赫戰爭。衝突一直持續到11月9日，在俄羅斯斡旋下，亞塞拜然重獲1990年代失去的領土，但首都斯捷潘納克特仍在亞美尼亞人的控制中。儘管戰爭已經結束，但對於失去家園、流離失所的亞美尼亞人，和返回飽受戰爭蹂躪地區的亞塞拜然人來說，和解將是困難的一條路。

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Valery Melnikov
Russia, Sputnik

Conflict between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh resumed in September, after a lull of 30 years. In 1994, following the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, part of Azerbaijan, unilaterally declared an independent state. Little was done to resolve the status of Nagorno-Karabakh in the decades that followed, and sporadic military clashes continued. In 2020, hostilities, which each side blames the other for starting, led to a second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Conflict continued until 9 November, when, in a settlement brokered by Russia, Azerbaijan regained possession of territory lost in the 1990s, but the regional capital, Stepanakert, was left under ethnic Armenian control. Although fighting is over, reconciliation will prove difficult both to Armenians who feel they have lost their homeland and are now displaced, and to Azerbaijanis returning to a region ravaged by war.