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Houses are seen burning in the town of Lachin (Berdzor in Armenian), as Armenia is to hand back the district to Azerbaijan Tuesday as part of a peace deal that ended six weeks of fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. IMAGES
An Armenian military convoy is seen crossing the Kalbajar district ahead of its handover to Azerbaijan. Armenia is set to handover the Kalbajar district wedged between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia on November 25 and the Lachin district by December 1, as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of brutal fighting in the region. IMAGES
The Armenians heave freshly-slaughtered pigs into the back of a van as they rush to pack every single one of their possessions before Azerbaijani forces arrive. As the village of Nor Maragha empties, even an entire house is loaded onto a flatbed truck so the incoming Azerbaijanis have nothing left to recover. IMAGES
EU lawmakers approve a resolution that accuses Azerbaijan of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" against the Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, and urges the bloc to impose sanctions on Baku. According to the resolution, the European Parliament "considers that the current situation amounts to ethnic cleansing and strongly condemns threats and violence committed by Azerbaijani troops". IMAGES
Images filmed from a car driving on the road as journalists enter to the city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert in Armenian, at the same time as Azerbaijani officials. The AFP team is reporting from the former breakaway region on a government press tour. IMAGES
Images show the road into the main city of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, known as Stepanakert in Armenian and Khankendi in Azeri. Footage shot from a vehicle by an AFP team, taking part in a press tour organised by Azerbaijan, shows vehicles and civilian buildings along the road into the city. Almost the entire ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway enclave. IMAGES
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