Lachin corridor
Lachin corridor was a six-kilometer mountain corridor in Azerbaijan that connected Armenia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.[1] The territory of the corridor today consists of three settlements: the villages of Zabukh, Sus and the city of Lachin.
After the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, the area was occupied by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war it was controlled by Russian peacekeepers. In 2023, Armenia took control of Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh. Almost all the Armenians in Artsakh left through the Lachin corridor to Armenia.
Lachin Corridor Media
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 April 23, 2023 in violation of the Tripartite Ceasefire Agreement that ended the 2020 war.
References
- ↑ Uhlig M.A. The Karabakh war / World Policy Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1993/1994), pp. 47-52 Published by: Duke University Press
Since May 1992, however, it has taken on grim strategic importance as the «Lachin Corridor» — a key military link between Armenia and the mountain territory of Nagorno- Karabakh, where ethnic war has raged since that Armenian-dominated enclave declared its desire to secede from Turkish-speaking Azerbaijan in 1988. At the now-deserted border town of Lachin, which gives the corridor its name, the distance between Armenia and Nagorno- Karabakh is a mere six kilometer