Azerbaijan constructing wall along contact line
Azerbaijan is building a protective wall along the line of contact with Nagorno-Karabakh.
As Azerbaijani media report, a 3-meter high and 700-meter-long wall has been constructed near the Azerbaijani village of Chragli, near the border with Karabakh's Martakert region.
The idea of building a line of defense that would protect Azerbaijan "from Armenian snipers" came in 2006. Supporters find that the ‘wall will remind Azerbaijanis of their neighbour.'
The precedents of erecting similar fortifications go back into ancient times when people built defense lines to protect their countries from foreign intrusions.
The most famous are the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall which was pulled down in 1989.
Israel today continues the construction of a 8-meter-high barrier along the western bank of the Jordan River. Upon completion, the barrier's total length will be approximately 760 kilometres. Supporters argue that the barrier is necessary to protect Israeli civilians from Palestinian terrorism. The West Bank barrier, as it is usually called, is a de facto border between Israel and Palestine.
Some people describe the West Bank barrier, is it is often termed, as the de facto future border of the State of Israel and Palestine.
