Tensions between Baku and Yerevan have mounted in recent weeks over a Russian-patrolled land corridor linking Armenia to the next-door Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Although most of Nagorno-Karabakh’s roughly 120,000 inhabitants are ethnic Armenians, the region is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.
Yerevan accuses Azerbaijan of blocking its only land route to the region—the so-called Lachin Corridor—in breach of a 2020 ceasefire agreement between the two former Soviet republics.
Baku, for its part, says its actions conform to international law and accuses Armenia of using the corridor to funnel arms into Nagorno-Karabakh—a claim Yerevan denies.
On May 1, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted the foreign ministers of both countries in Washington in an effort to resolve the impasse….