LACHIN CORRIDOR

The decision of the International Court of Justice was expected. The appeal of the Armenians to the court on these matters was of „very good sense“.

Thus, the international legist and diplomat Namik Aliyev commented to Day.Az the rejection by the court in The Hague of Armenia's claim regarding the removal of the Azerbaijani checkpoint and the armed forces of Azerbaijan as a whole from the Lachine road.

Reports are being circulated in the media and social networks on behalf of the “Russian community of Nagorno-Karabakh” about the mythical 5,000 Russians and citizens of Russia suffering from the alleged blockade of the Lachin road. The so-called “Secretary of the Assembly of Russian Compatriots” of the puppet “NKR” Andrei Sergeev makes statements about the “hardest test” of “more than 5,000 Russian compatriots” living in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

Illegal exploitation and looting of Azerbaijani natural resources continues in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, where Russian Federation peacekeepers are currently stationed.

The facts about the illegal exploitation of minerals, metals, timber, drinking water and other water resources are reflected in the reports and resolutions adopted by the OSCE, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Environment Program (UNEP) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Last month, the first group of internally displaced Azerbaijanis - people forcibly displaced from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan in the early 1990s - headed back to their native land in the Zangilan region of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani emigrants set out for their long-lost homeland to reclaim it, with the hope that other IDPs will follow the example of these first returning pioneers.

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Brussels for talks mediated by the European Union on Aug. 31.

The announcement of the meeting came as Azerbaijani forces assumed control of the Lachin Corridor as per the two countries' 2020 cease-fire agreement, and the operation of an alternative road between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh bypassing Lachin is expected to become operational in a matter of days.