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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mike Corder

UN court orders Azerbaijan to end Nagorno-Karabakh roadblock

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The United Nations' highest court ordered Azerbaijan on Wednesday to remove a roadblock from the only road between Armenia and the ethnic Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that has further fueled tensions between the two countries.

The legally binding 13-2 ruling by the International Court of Justice results from the latest legal skirmishes in a long-running feud between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Each country filed a case with the court accusing the other of breaching a convention aimed at stamping out racial discrimination.

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