Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to halt fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh from noon on October 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday after marathon talks between the two countries' top diplomats. "A ceasefire is announced from 12 hours 00 minutes on October 10 on humanitarian grounds," Lavrov said, reading out from a statement. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed to AFP separately that the ceasefire would begin from noon Saturday. as/rbu