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Lachin corridor
Sign in to save5 km mountain pass connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia
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- Instance of
- geopolitical corridor
- Named after
- Lachin
- Country
- Republic of Artsakh
- Located in
- Lachin District
- Image
- Lachin corridor (checkpoint) between Armenia and Artsakh (July 2017).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
2020–2022 map of the Lachin corridor following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement. The new route currently in use is located to the south of the Goris-Stepanakert highway. Azerbaijani checkpoint to the Lachin corridor at the Hakari bridge, viewed from Kornidzor, Republic of Armenia. The checkpoint was installed on 23 April 2023, in violation of the tripartite ceasefire agreement that ended the 2020 war. The Lachin corridor was a mountain road in Azerbaijan that previously linked Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Being the only road between these two territories, it was considered a humanitarian corridor or lifeline to the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. Until Armenia secured the Lachin corridor in 1992, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh were entirely isolated, relying solely on their own limited resources and aid flown in from Armenia. At that time, humanitarian aid from the Red Cross, the UN, and France were blocked by Azerbaijani authorities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lachin corridor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.