US Concerns Azerbaijani “Border Post” in Lachin Corridor

24 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel has expressed his country’s concern over Azerbaijan’s creation of a “border post” in the Lachin corridor, which connects Armenia with the self-proclaimed Nagorno Karabagh republic.

Through a statement, the spokesman expressed the concern of the Department, which fears that this fact “undermines the efforts to provide confidence in the peace process” between the two states in the aforementioned corridor, where Russian military personnel are deployed as peacekeepers. under the 2020 ceasefire agreement.

“We reiterate that there should be free and open movement of people and trade in the Lachín corridor, and we call on countries to resume peace talks and refrain from provocation and hostile actions on the border,” he added.

This Sunday, the Azeri Border Guard announced the installation of a “border post” in the Lachin corridor in response to the “transportation of personnel, ammunition, mines and other military equipment from Armenia to illegal Armenian armed groups in Azerbaijan”, accusations rejected. for Yerevan.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry, after learning of the existence of this “post”, asked Russia to carry out its work as a guarantor of peace and demand the withdrawal of this installation for going beyond “provocation” to become “a flagrant violation “of one of the fundamental provisions of the ceasefire.

Tensions on the border intensify after this Sunday, the Government of Armenia denounced the death of a soldier in an attack attributed to the Army of Azerbaijan against a position located near the town of Sotk (east), a day after Baku reported that three soldiers had been injured by a mine explosion in Shusha.