 Under the agreement, confirmed by both sides and effective from 1 p.m. on Wednesday, separatist forces will disband and disarm and talks on the future of the region and the ethnic Armenians who lived there will start on September 21. Separatists running the self-styled Republic of Artsakh said they had been forced to agree to Azerbaijan's terms, relayed by Russian peacekeepers after Baku's army broke through their lines and seized a number of strategic locations. Azerbaijan confirmed a ceasefire deal had been reached. The outcome would appear to pave the way for Azerbaijan to integrate around 120,000 ethnic Armenians into its society and to take full control of a mountainous area that has been at the center of two wars since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Armenia, which claims it has no military forces in Karaba, despite Azerbaijani assertions, did not intervene militarily. The military forces in Karabakh, which are located in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, have united the Armenian armed forces, put the Armenian armed forces on the other side, put the weapons on the ground, and get out of the battlefields and war zones. It is our duty to defend the peaceful population in our main point of base, with more than 2,000 citizens.