INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
breakaway region.Residents of Karabakh reported new shortages of food and medicine after the International Committee of the Red Cross said
Azerbaijan had blocked access for convoys delivering aid to the Armenian-populated region last week."We call on Baku to fully unblock
traffic along the Lachin corridor," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.She said Baku's move
to take part in trilateral talks.Karabakh has been at the center of a decades-long territorial dispute between the Caucasus enemies.Karabakh
has been hit by a humanitarian crisis since December, when Azerbaijani activists blocked a key road to protest illegal mining.Azerbaijan
Red Cross said it could no longer bring humanitarian supplies to the disputed territory, including medicines.Armenia and Azerbaijan have
fought two wars for control of Karabakh, in the 1990s and again in 2020, when thousands were killed in six weeks of fighting.The violence
agreement, Azerbaijan must guarantee safe passage through the corridor.Armenia has repeatedly accused Moscow peacekeepers of failing to
protect ethnic Armenians living in the breakaway region.
