Monday, December 5 2022 12:49

ArmInfo.Taguhi Tovmasyan, Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs, RA National Assembly, posted the following  Facebook message: 

"Blocking of the only Artsakh - Armenia highway by the Azerbaijani  people is another appearance of Azerbaijan's ethnic hatred against  Armenians, Azerbaijan's criminal policy of blockade of Artsakh,  flagrant violation of fundamental rights of the people of Artsakh.  With such a step Azerbaijan seeks to gradually cut off the land  connection between two Armenian republics and commit a new Genocide  of the people of Artsakh.  

"I draw my international colleagues' attention to Azerbaijan's  behavior which is unlawful and violates such basic human rights as  the right to life, health, freedom and other universal rights.  Closing the only highway to Artsakh, the Azerbaijanis have blocked  the medical supplies and other supplies of medicines to Artsakh,  patients with serious health problems were not able to reach Armenia  from Artsakh for the necessary medical care during all the time. 

"It is worth mentioning that two days before the mentioned unlawful  operations by Azerbaijan, I had drawn the attention of the  international institutions to the criminal actions by Azerbaijan,  stressed the necessity for imposing sanctions against Azerbaijan  which blatantly violates the rights of the Armenians, otherwise  Azerbaijan will commit new crimes in the condition of the impunity by  the international community. 

"I alarm my international colleagues: the blocking by Azerbaijan of  the only infrastructure connecting Artsakh to Armenia is only the  beginning of another crime by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is going to  reach humanitarian disaster in Artsakh in the nearest future in order  to carry out its planned programs of a new Genocide against  Armenians, to deprive the people of Artsakh of the right to live a  peaceful life in their homeland, and to de-Armenianize Artsakh. 

"While N. Pashinyan's Government, which is strongly committed to  peace agenda with Turkish people, lowering the bar in the Artsakh  issue and laying security guarantees and rights under the Armenian  concept of NK issue regulation, is stubbornly silent."