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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Stephanie van den Berg

Armenia tells World Court Azerbaijan blockade is 'ethnic cleansing'

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands August 27, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

Armenia told judges at the World Court on Monday that a blockade of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region by neighbouring Azerbaijan was designed to allow "ethnic cleansing", a claim rejected by Baku.

The Lachin corridor is the only route whereby Armenia can provide food, fuel and medicine supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh, a region internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but home to around 120,000 ethnic Armenians.

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