ArmInfo. At the initiative of Ombudsman of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan and adviser to the State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan, protests will be held in front of the diplomatic missions in Yerevan in connection with the closure of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan. They will be held in front of the embassies of the United States, China, the Russian Federation and France. The protesters started their rally from the US Embassy.
According to the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan, for the fourth day in a row, Azerbaijan has been blockading the 120,000 population of Artsakh, preventing the delivery of food and essentials to the republic.
It should be noted that on December 12 at 10:30 am a group of Azerbaijanis in civilian clothes blocked the Stepanakert-Goris highway. Armenian telegram channels have already identified employees 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 lit up in the photo with a demonstration of the symbol of Turkish "Gray Wolves" ultranationalists, said that they would remain on the road until the head of the peacekeeping contingent, Andrei Volkov, arrived.
In addition, on the evening of December 13, Azerbaijan also closed the valve of the gas pipeline that supplies gas to the population of Nagorno Karabakh. The international community reacts rather sluggishly to this terror perpetrated by Aliyev's dictatorial regime. Late on December 13, more than 24 hours later, the US State Department, France and the EU called for traffic to be restored. We add that the first provocations by the so-called environmentalists began on December 3 with the blocking of the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor connecting Artsakh with Armenia. Over the past week, the enemy side periodically undertook various kinds of provocations, both against Russian peacekeepers 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 these mines.