Armenia pleaded with judges of the United Nations’ highest court on Monday to order Azerbaijan to break up a road blockade that is isolating the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, calling the action part of an act of “ethnic cleansing.”
Late last year, Azerbaijanis claiming to be environmental activists began blocking a winding road known as the Lachin Corridor that forms the only land connection between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The blockade threatens food supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh’s 120,000 people.
“Ethnic Armenians may not enter Nagorno-Karabakh but they may leave,” said Yeghishe Kirakosyan, Armenia’s main legal representative to the International Court of Justice. “Judges of the court, such blatant acts of ethnic cleansing have no place in modern era.”
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