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REPORTAGE. Azerbaijan is blocking the only land route between Armenia and its enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, depriving its inhabitants of essential resources.
From our special correspondent in Armenia, Marine de Tilly
Barrier. Since December 12, the Latchine corridor, the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to the rest of Armenia, has been blocked. Thousands of men, women and children are prisoners at their doorsteps.
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VSis a strip of land 5 kilometers wide and 65 long which, on either side of a lassoing mountain road, connects Goris, the last Armenian town before the Azerbaijani border, with Stepanakert, capital of Upper -Karabakh. It is an umbilical cord between “Mother Armenia” and what remains of her “black garden” (kara, “black” in Turkish, and bakh, “garden” in Persian), ravaged by the Turkish-Azerbaijani war machine in 2020. of Karabakhtsis working or taking care of themselves in Armenia.
Since the end of the war and the tripartite ceasefire agreement, Azerbaijan is supposed to “guarantee the security of the movements of citi…
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