Armenia said on Thursday that a cease-fire agreed with neighboring Azerbaijan on Wednesday was still holding, writes DW.

“With the participation of the international community, a cease-fire has been reached”, - Armen Grigoryan, the secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, said. The announcement comes after a previous agreement, which was brokered by Russia as recently as Tuesday, had fallen by the wayside.

The European Union welcomed the ceasefire between the two countries, which it said was “being respected so far”.

“The EU remains strongly involved in the normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan”, - Peter Stano, the bloc’s spokesman for foreign affairs and security policy, said in a statement. He also added that EU Special Representative, Toivo Klaar, was holding high-level consultations in Baku on Wednesday and in Yerevan on Thursday.