Blinken spoke by telephone with Aliyev 'to urge an immediate reopening of the Lachin Corridor to commercial traffic,' State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement on January 23.
- Jan 24, 2023, 9:30 AM CST
"He underscored that the risk of a humanitarian crisis in the Lachin Corridor undermined prospects for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan," the statement added. The Azerbaijani side insists that the road is open for humanitarian cargo, emergency services, and peacekeepers.Armenia has called the blockade a gross violation of the Russian-brokered agreement from November 2020 that suspended more than a month of intense fighting in the decades-old Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.
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