Concern mounts for ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh

The years of fighting in the enclave have sparked fears of a new refugee crisis.

A Russian personnel carrier accompanied the delivery of humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken told Armenian prime ministe Nikol Pashinyan that Washington had “deep concern” for ethnic Armenians there, in a phone call yesterday, a spokesman said. “Certainly people are very fearful of what could be occurring in there,” senator Gary Peters of Michigan told reporters at the border yesterday.He used binoculars to look across the border toward Russian peacekeeper positions, as Azerbaijani trucks transported material for a new highway being built as the government secures the region.

They also control the so-called Lachin Corridor to the southwest, which once connected the breakaway region to Armenia. Baku has mounted a de facto blockade there for the past nine months.

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