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Azerbaijani Troops Block Hakari Bridge Along Lachin Corridor
Azerbaijani troops today closed the Hakari River bridge along the Lachin Corridor.
Entering Azerbaijan near the Armenian village of Tegh, the bridge is some fifteen kilometers distant, on the outskirts of the town of Lachin.
Baku says it will install a checkpoint at the site citing “continuing military supplies from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh,” a claim repeatedly denied by Yerevan and Stepanakert.
The entire Lachin Corridor is ostensibly under the control of Russian peacekeepers.
The Artsakh government has condemned the closure of the bridge, accusing Baku of using the false pretext that Armenia is sending weapons to Karabakh Armenians via the Lachin Corridor.
This is the second section of the Lachin roadway now blocked by Azerbaijan.
Since last December, so-called Azerbaijani “eco-activists” have blocked a section of the roadway near the town of Shushi.
Update: Following this incident, the Armenian Foreign Ministry issued the following statement calling on Russia to remove all Azerbaijani troops from the roadway.
“We call on the Russian Federation to finally fulfil the obligation under provision 6 of the Trilateral statement by eliminating the illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor and ensuring the withdrawal of Azerbaijani forces from the entire security zone of the corridor, and we call on the member states of the UN, having a mandate for the preservation of international security, to clearly record Azerbaijan's actions undermining the regional security and take effective steps towards the unconditional implementation of the decision of the ICJ, the highest international legal body.”
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