Wednesday, December 14 2022 18:14

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan once again violated the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020. This was stated in the statement of the National Assembly of Armenia, which  was adopted on December 14 at the extraordinary session of the  National Assembly with 57 votes in favor.

Presenting the document, head of the "Civil Contract" faction Hayk  Konjoryan noted that on the morning of December 12, Azerbaijan  illegally blocked the Goris-Stepanakert road linking Artsakh with  Armenia, as a result of which, the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are  actually deprived of the right to free movement.

Thousands of people, including children, were stuck on frozen roads,  many families were involuntarily separated on different sides of the  blockade. Citizens with serious health problems were deprived of  medicines and medical services. The supply of food and other  essential goods has been disrupted. During the siege, 120,000 people  were actually taken hostage.

Exacerbating provocative and inhumane actions, on the evening of  December 13, Azerbaijan shut off the valve of the gas pipeline  supplying natural gas to Nagorno-Karabakh, which it installed after  the gas pipeline was blown up on March 7, 2022. In the current  situation, schools and kindergartens heated by natural gas were  forced to stop their work, as a result of which about 22,000 children  were deprived of the right to education. As a result of these actions  of Azerbaijan, a threat of a humanitarian catastrophe arose in  Nagorno-Karabakh. Basic human rights and freedoms are grossly  violated, and the security of the Karabakh Armenians is under direct  threat. All this is yet another proof that Azerbaijan has adopted a  policy of genocide against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.  Periodic violations of the ceasefire regime and provocations by the  Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the line of contact with Nagorno-Karabakh  make the threat to the existence of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh  more tangible.

<By blocking the Lachin corridor, Azerbaijan directly violates the  provisions of the statement of November 9, 2020, according to which  the Lachin corridor should be under the control of the Russian  peacekeeping forces deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan  guarantees the safety of the movement of citizens, vehicles and goods  through the Lachin corridor. Based on the current situation, we call  on the Russian Federation to take the necessary actions to ensure the  full implementation of the provisions of the tripartite statement of  November 9, 2020 in the zone of control of the Russian peacekeeping  forces. We call on the international community to strongly and  directly condemn the actions of Azerbaijan and take measures to  prevent a possible humanitarian catastrophe in Nagorno-Karabakh. In  the current situation, it is imperative to launch or restart  international mechanisms for ensuring the rights and security of the  Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. We call on the members of the UN  Security Council and the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, as well  as the member countries of the abovementioned organizations, to send  a fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh to monitor the situation>,  the statement reads.