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Added on the 23/09/2023 14:25:29 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images of Armenian military guarding the border post at the start of the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan, in Kornidzor. IMAGES
Thousands rally in Stepanakert, the biggest city in - and capital of - the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, to protest the blockade of the only land link to Armenia. For almost two weeks, Azerbaijani activists have blocked the Lachin corridor in protest over what they claim is illegal mining in the area, but Yerevan has accused Baku of staging demonstrations and creating a humanitarian crisis in the mountainous enclave. Armenia and Azerbaijan, both ex-Soviet states, have fought brutal wars over the Karabakh region in recent decades. IMAGES
The first civilians are driving through the six-kilometre Lachin corridor, which is Armenia’s sole land link with Nagorno-Karabakh following the Moscow-brokered peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over the disputed region. Safe passage of people and goods is ensured by Russian peacekeepers. IMAGES
Images show abandoned cars along the Lachin Corridor road that connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and which some one hundred-thousand Armenians moved down as they fled the breakaway enclave, according to a count by the Armenian authorities. IMAGES
A Russian military convoy drives through an Armenian military border post in the village of Kornidzor at the start of the Lachin Corridor, the sole road linking Armenia with the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. IMAGES
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