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It鈥檚 a sign that peace between the neighboring countries is 鈥渘o longer on paper, but in practice,鈥 said Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. Transit had been banned for nearly four decades during conflict over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A spokeswoman for the Armenian government praised the development as a step toward 鈥渋nstitutionalizing the peace established鈥 in a U.S.-brokered agreement in August.
