Recently, Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the plight of the 120,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh region that Armenia says are blockaded by Azerbaijan and facing a humanitarian crisis.
- Armenia asked for the meeting saying Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor had left its people with dwindling food, medicine and electricity.
- Lachin Corridor is the only road connecting mainly Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
- Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, but the region and substantial territory around it came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces who were backed by the Armenian military in separatist fighting that ended in 1994.
