A ceasefire agreement has been reached a day after Azerbaijan launched a new military offensive against the local Armenian government in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, writes The Guardian.

The agreement was due to take effect at 1pm local time and includes provisions for the local Armenian government to disband its local military, in what appears to be a capitulation to Azerbaijan.

The numbers of dead and wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh jumped overnight. A former head of the local government said close to 100 people had been killed and hundreds more injured after Azerbaijan launched what it described as an “anti-terrorist operation” in the disputed South Caucasus region on Tuesday.

Officials in the regional capital, Stepanakert, and in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, confirmed that representatives would meet in Yevlakh, in Azerbaijan, on Thursday for negotiations. Azerbaijan, which has demanded the dissolution of the local government in Nagorno-Karabakh, has said the talks will touch on plans for the reintegration of the region into Azerbaijan.