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Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia | Info

Azerbaijan said today it had established a checkpoint on the only land route to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, a move that was followed by claims of shelling on the border by Azerbaijani and Armenian forces.

Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but its 120,000 residents are predominantly ethnic Armenians and the region broke away from Baku in a war in the early 1990s.

Azerbaijan said it had set up a checkpoint on the road leading to Karabakh, a step it said was essential because it believed Armenia was using the road to transport weapons.

Azerbaijan “took appropriate measures to establish control at the starting point of the route,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Armenia said the checkpoint at the Hakari Bridge in the Lachin Corridor was a gross violation of the 2020 ceasefire agreement that ended that year’s war.

(SRNA)

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS