U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday asked the president of Azerbaijan to redouble efforts to clinch a peace agreement with Armenia and called for the immediate reopening of a corridor vital to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. But Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, denied that the Lachin corridor, linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, was subject to a blockade. He said officials in the region had to halt a mining project that Azeri activists say is the main reason for disrupting traffic.
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