According to a statement signed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashkina and Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 10, the Kalbajar region occupied by the Armenian armed forces is now under full control of Azerbaijan. Successful military operations in the Patriotic War launched by the Azerbaijani Army under the leadership of Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev on September 27, the signing of this document formalizing the capitulation of Armenia. , led to the liberation of numerous strategic heights.
Armenian armed forces occupied Kalbajar region on April 2, 1993. As a result of the occupation, 53,340 people were displaced, 55 servicemen and 511 residents were killed, 321 people were taken prisoner and went missing, and thousands of residents were injured. At present, more than 71,000 people in Kalbajar have settled in other settlements of Azerbaijan as IDPs. Following Armenia's occupation of Kalbajar, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 822. The resolution demanded the immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces from Kalbajar and other occupied regions of Azerbaijan. According to the statement signed by the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia, on November 20, Aghdam region, and on December 1, 2020, Lachin region will be liberated from the occupying forces of Armenia.