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Lachin border checkpoint was established in exercise of Azerbaijan’s inherent right to safeguard its sovereignty and security

17 August 2023 01:08 (UTC +04:00)

“The so-called “Lachin Corridor” is a road within the sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, without any extraterritorial status, is primarily intended for the movement of citizens, vehicles and goods under the Trilateral Statement of November 10, 2020. Azerbaijan, in adherence to its commitments under the Trilateral Statement, has allowed movement along this road,” said Permanent Representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Yashar Aliyev as he addressed an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the alleged “humanitarian crisis” created in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, APA reports.

“This remains intact after the establishment by Azerbaijan of the checkpoint on its border with Armenia.

The border checkpoint was established in exercise of Azerbaijan’s inherent right to safeguard its sovereignty and security, to prevent the consistent and blatant abuse by Armenia of this route for illegal military and other activities, such as rotation of its some 10,000 military personnel, illegally stationed in the territory of Azerbaijan, transfer of weaponry, ammunition, landmines and terrorists of foreign nationals thereto, as well as unlawful extraction and transfer of natural resources from this territory.

The unanimous decision by the International Court of Justice on July 6, 2023, to reject Armenia’s request for an interim measure on the removal of the checkpoint, definitively dismissed Armenia’s allegations that the Lachin checkpoint is illegal,” he added.