The highest court of the United Nations has ordered Azerbaijan to remove a roadblock from the only road between Armenia and the Armenian-majority Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that has further fueled tensions between the two countries.
The legally binding 13-2 ruling made on Wednesday by the International Court of Justice results from the latest legal skirmishes in a long-running fight between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Wednesday’s ruling on the blocked road, known as the Lachin Corridor, was handed down just over two years from the end of a war between the neighboring nations in Nagorno-Karabakh that killed about 6,800 soldiers and displaced 90,000 civilians.
Armenia’s lawyers said during court hearings last month that the roadblock set up late last year by protesters who said they were environmental activists was part of an Azerbaijani campaign that the Armenians labeled “ethnic cleansing.”
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