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Azerbaijan agrees to reopen Lachin Corridor to Nagorno-Karabakh posted at 19:32:39 UTC   via   politico.eu YEREVAN, Armenia — Azerbaijan has agreed to reopen the only highway linking Armenia to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior Azerbaijani official told POLITICO on Saturday. The news comes after authorities in the ethnic Armenian-controlled exclave — inside Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized borders — announced earlier in the day that it would accept  humanitarian shipments  from the Russian Red Cross via an alternative road from Aghdam, inside Azerbaijani government-held territory. According to Hikmet Hajiyev, foreign policy adviser to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, “Azerbaijan expressed its consent as a goodwill gesture to ensure simultaneous opening” of the so-called Lachin Corridor, which connects the mountainous territory to Armenia. “In the Lachin checkpoint, Azerbaijan’s customs and border regime must be observed,” he said. For close...

  Azerbaijan again falsely accuses Armenia of border shooting posted at 19:05:10 UTC   via   armenpress.am  11:15, 9 September 2023 YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. The Azeri authorities have falsely accused the Armenian military of firing at their outposts across the border in an ongoing disinformation campaign, the Ministry of Defense warned Saturday. “The statement of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan as if on September 9, at around 03:55 a.m., the units of the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire against the Azerbaijani combat positions in the southwestern part of the border, does not correspond to reality,” the Armenian Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Selected Articles - Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader - The News And Times Azerbaijan again falsely accuses Armenia of border shooting posted 37m ago   via   armenpress.am RSS -   Pashinyan speaks by phone with Macron, expresses readiness to hold urgent discussions with Ali...