Azerbaijan plans to build a motorway until the border with Armenia via the Nagorno-Karabakh [(Artsakh)] territory now under Azerbaijani control. The statement came Monday from Anar Najafli, head of the press service of the State Agency of Azerbaijan Automobile Roads.

"The new road is the Horadiz-Minjivan-Armenia border highway," he told Trend news agency, adding that the respective planning had already begun.

He also noted that in the future this highway may extend further—from the Armenian border toward Nakhchivan.

Azerbaijan has already started the construction of a highway from Fizuli Region to Shushi city, which is now under the control of Baku; it will be 101.5km long.

On November 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on a complete cessation of hostilities— which Azerbaijan had launched on September 27—in and around Artsakh. Accordingly, Russian peacekeepers are deployed in the region to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities. But this statement also stipulates the handover of part of Artsakh lands to Azerbaijan.