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The area of Nagorno-Karabakh is central to the battle. (File)
Tbilisi, Georgia:
Russia stated on Tuesday it was working exhausting to resolve a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Lachin Hall, the only real highway linking Armenia to the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The mountainous route throughout Azerbaijan has been blocked since Dec. 12, when protesters claiming to be environmental activists stopped visitors by establishing tents. Some 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh rely upon it for provides of meals, gasoline and drugs.
The standoff has raised worldwide concern, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on Monday for the rapid reopening of the route.
Russia is the primary energy dealer within the area and has peacekeeping troops stationed alongside the Lachin hall. Their failure to reopen it’s a supply of frustration for Armenia.
Russia “continues painstaking and troublesome work with each Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised reporters when requested to touch upon Blinken’s remarks. He didn’t elaborate.
Armenia says the protest was orchestrated by the Azerbaijani authorities as a deliberate blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan denies that, saying the activists are staging a respectable protest towards unlawful mining exercise.
The 2 international locations have fought two wars because the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognised as a part of Azerbaijan however populated primarily by ethnic Armenians.
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