ArmInfo.Official Yerevan commented on the reasons for its refusal of the Moscow meeting with the Azerbaijani side.
Thus, according to the RA MFA, in response to the question of is it true that the meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan was scheduled to be held on December 23 in Moscow, within the framework of the peace treaty negotiations, but it will not take place? Press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Vahan Hunanyan, said in part:
"The Armenian side confirmed its readiness to participate in the Moscow meeting about two weeks ago, before the illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan.
Apparently, the current work priority of the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan is to address the issues of resuming the unhindered operation of the Lachin Corridor, in accordance with the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, as well as the problems arising from the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. Hence, the Armenian side requested to reschedule the Moscow meeting.
At the same time, we would like to inform that as a sign of Armenia's constructiveness in the process of normalization of relations with Azerbaijan, regardless of the meeting, new proposals from the Armenian side regarding the document on normalization of relations were handed over to Azerbaijan." 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 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, from the evening of December 13, Azerbaijan also shut off the valve of the gas pipeline through which gas is supplied to the population of Nagorno-Karabakh. The gas supply was restored three days later. It is noteworthy that the Azerbaijanis who blocked the Stepanakert-Goris highway changed their demands, and now they demand the control and activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Service of Azerbaijan throughout the territory of the Republic of Artsakh. 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.