Azerbaijan and the Four Day War: Breaking the Karabakh Deadlock

... region in over 20 years. The fighting erupted on April 2nd and continued until the ceasefire agreement was signed by the Chiefs of Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan at a meeting in Moscow on April 5th , after an intense Russian-led mediation effort. The Four Day War, as it came to be known, claimed over a hundred lives (although the casualty figures are still being disputed) and raised fears of a wider military conflict in the region ( 1 , 2 ). Indeed, in an interview with Bloomberg on April 24th, Armenian ...