ArmInfo.The blockade of the only road linking Armenia with Artsakh is another vivid manifestation of Azerbaijan's genocidal policy. Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Artsakh David Babayan stated on December 13 at a press conference in Yerevan, touching upon the situation in the Berdzor (Lachin-az.) corridor due to the actions of Azerbaijan.
He admitted that he was unable to return home from his business trip due to these hostile actions.
At the same time, Babayan called on the international community to curb Azerbaijan, recalling what deplorable consequences these Armenophobic steps of the Azerbaijani side could lead to.
In turn, Artsakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan recalled that now 120,000 Artsakh residents are under blockade. "I also note that Artsakh has no connection with any country by air. And this is a violation of elementary human rights. And this is all done on the direct orders of the President of Azerbaijan. Naturally, those gathered there are not environmentalists at all, moreover, there are reliable reports that most of them are employees of the Azerbaijani special services," the Ombudsman noted.
Stepanyan recalled that for the second day in a row Artsakh has been deprived of the opportunity to receive medical supplies, emergency supplies, food, energy resources (gasoline, diesel fuel). According to him, more than 1,000 citizens, including 270 children, are deprived of the opportunity to return home.
"This is another element of Azerbaijan's genocidal policy, which is carried out in a systematic and coordinated manner," said the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh.
On December 12 at 10:30 am, a group of Azerbaijanis in civilian clothes blocked the Stepanakert-Goris highway, again "for environmental reasons." Armenian telegram channels have already identified agents of the special services of Azerbaijan among the so-called ecologists. The Azerbaijanis are behaving loosely, trying to provoke Russian peacekeepers, and have set up a tent on the only road linking Artsakh with Armenia. The road remains closed to this day. The so-called Azerbaijani environmentalists, who were photographed with the symbol of the "Gray Wolves" of Turkish ultra-nationalists, said they would remain on the road until the arrival of the commander of the peacekeeping contingent, Andrei Volkov. It should be noted that the Armenian authorities reacted to the situation only today by noon. The Premier convened a meeting of the Security Council, and the Foreign Ministry issued a statement. Even the HRD of Armenia responded just one day later, after serious criticism of the body by the citizens. All international organizations - defenders of the protection of human rights - are also silent. So it turns out that there are still double standards in the protection of human rights, and humanism is determined by the color of the skin ... And someone remains unpunished for aggression and terrorism because energy resources are still more expensive than "blood of Armenians".
We add that the first provocations by the so-called environmentalists began on December 3 with the blocking of the Lachin corridor connecting Artsakh with Armenia. Over the past week, the enemy side periodically undertook various kinds of provocations both against the Russian peacekeepers in the NKR and against the civilian population. And already on December 10, a group of Azerbaijanis tried to get into two mines operating in the NKR, however, the Karabakh people did not allow the enemies to get into the mines.