Samvel Babayan`s "United Motherland" makes statement over reports  about establishment of control mechanisms in Lachin corridor

ArmInfo.Samvel Babayan's "United Motherland" party issued a statement in connection with reports about the establishment of control mechanisms in the Lachin  corridor.

The party's statement received by ArmInfo notes that, following the  official publications and approaches of the parties regarding the  establishment of possible control mechanisms in the Lachin corridor  connecting Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, after another provocation  from Azerbaijan under the guise of an environmental action, United  Motherland states:

"The imperative of the day is to delegate a mandate to conduct a  peacekeeping mission in Nagorno- Karabakh with the active  participation of the international community in accordance with the  procedures of the UN Security Council, until its necessity is  eliminated, that is, a comprehensive political settlement of the  conflict." In addition, the party is convinced that actions and  interferences that do not follow from the tripartite statement of  November 9, 2020, which infringe on the rights and freedoms of the  people of Artsakh in their historical homeland, are completely  unacceptable.

"Based on the justification of the need to control the transportation  of prohibited goods, appropriate measures should be implemented  mainly on the Karvachar-Mataghis and Khudaferin-Sanasar-Kashatagh-  Karvachar routes, as well as in the Karvachar, Kashatagh and Akna  regions that came under the control of Azerbaijan in accordance with  the tripartite a statement, and  where the Azerbaijani side not only  concentrated a huge amount of manpower and military equipment, but  also from there invaded the sovereign territory of the Republic of  Armenia - Jermuk, Vardenis, Syunik and other teritories. And this is  in the case when the territories surrendered without hostilities were  supposed to be demilitarized zones in compliance with international  principles and norms, in this case under the responsibility of  Russian peacekeepers," the statement said.  "It is urgent to clarify  the geographical coordinates of the line of contact between  Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin corridor, and based on this, deploy  no more than one checkpoint in the segment of the deployment of the  Russian peacekeeping contingent along the 5 km corridor," the party  stressed.  At the same time, concern is expressed in connection with  the approaches of Armenia - as a party to the signatory of the  tripartite declaration, regarding the interpretation of the  provisions of the same declaration, a discretionary attitude towards  them, formed by political expediency.  "The authorities of the  Republic of Armenia must be consistent in specifying and fixing in  the documents arising from the tripartite declaration the  aforementioned essential and technical issues, obliging the other  parties to the declaration to fulfill their obligations in full.  

The criminal arrogance of the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh  is surprising against the background of the incessant manifestations  of force and the threat of force against their own people. In  particular, territorial losses of strategic importance: the villages  of Khtsaberd and Hin Tagher of the Hadrut region (December 11-12,  2020), the village of Parukh and the adjacent Karaglukh height (March  24, 2022), Mount Kusanats with the adjacent heights of Saribab and  Buzdukh ( August 3, 2022), tension on the line of contact with  victims and wounded, incidents among the civilian population, etc.   "We reaffirm our position that the internal political structure of  the Republic of Artsakh does not reflect post-war realities. And the  political leadership of the country is completely unaware of the  essence of the challenges in Artsakh and around it, which can only be  overcome by new elections. As a result of which, a government  mandated by the people Artsakh, will receive positive legitimacy to  conduct direct negotiations with Azerbaijan, otherwise the people can  take proportionate steps," the party concluded.  

On December 3, a group of Azerbaijani servicemen in civilian clothes,  under the guise of environmentalists, blocked the Goris-Stepanakert  interstate road in the Shushi-Karintak section. They were allegedly  concerned about environmental issues and demanded clarification. The  road was unblocked after three hours of negotiations, which were  conducted by the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.  After that, the topic of deploying a mini customs checkpoint on the  Armenia-Artsakh road began to circulate