Tbilisi, 23 Feb. Azerbaijan must remove suspected environmentalists blocking the Lachin Corridor that connects Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict yesterday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol said today. Pashinian.
“Azerbaijan must take visible steps to open the Lachin Corridor. The first and most primitive step should be the call from the highest authorities of Azerbaijan to quote-unquote eco-activists to open the Lachin Corridor,” he said at a government meeting. . .
Pashinyan noted that Azerbaijan’s lack of concrete action “can and should lead to concrete international consequences.”
The ICJ on Wednesday ordered Baku to “urgently” unblock the Lachin corridor, a vital axis for supplying the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory in dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia for more than 30 years.
“Azerbaijan is obliged, in accordance with commitments made under the International Convention against Racial Discrimination, to take all measures to ensure uninterrupted transit through the Lachin Corridor,” ICJ Judge Joan Donoghue ruled yesterday. .
This decision was made public two days after the official launch by the EU of a civilian mission aimed at stabilizing the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Due to the blockade of the Lachin Corridor, approximately 120,000 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh suffer from shortages of food, medicine and fuel.
Since mid-December, Azerbaijanis claiming to be environmental defenders have been blocking the Lachin corridor.
Armenia and Azerbaijan ended their latest war for control of Nagorno-Karabakh, the mountainous region they have been fighting over since the 1980s, in November 2020.
Yerevan has lost control of more than two-thirds of the territories in and around Karabakh, but maintains communication with the enclave through the Lachin corridor.
Since December 12, this road has been closed by a group of Azerbaijanis who call themselves environmentalists and Armenia has denounced that some 120,000 Karabakh Armenians are suffering from a humanitarian crisis because of this blockade. ECE
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