Opposition MP urges citizens to gather in front of UN office

ArmInfo.Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from the "Armenia" opposition faction Ishkhan Saghatelyan calls to urgently convene an  extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly to adopt a statement  on the genocidal actions of Azerbaijan.

<For more than a day now, 120,000 of our compatriots of Artsakh have  been in blockade. Since yesterday, the world offices of the ARF-  Dashnaktsutyun party have been presenting the genocidal actions of  Azerbaijan to the international community," the MP wrote on his  Facebook page.

He recalled that today the National Assembly of Artsakh convened an  extraordinary session and issued an appeal to all Armenians, in which  it called on them to use every opportunity to speak out at various  platforms about the humanitarian catastrophe caused by Azerbaijan in  Artsakh, stand up for the rights of Artsakh Armenians and be ready  necessary steps in this direction.

<In the near future, it is necessary to hold protests in front of the  embassies of Azerbaijan and Turkey in various countries of the world,  to hold protests in front of international representations in  Armenia. Today, December 13, at 16:00 we are gathering in front of  the UN office building. Then we will send letters to the embassies of  France, Russia and the USA. It is also necessary to urgently hold an  extraordinary meeting of the RA National Assembly to adopt a  statement condemning the genocidal actions of Azerbaijan. We are  working in these three areas, which will be reported later>, the MP  noted.

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 agents 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  photographed with the symbol of the "Gray Wolves" of Turkish  ultra-nationalists, said they would remain on the road until the  arrival of the commander of the peacekeeping contingent, Andrei  Volkov.  It should be noted that the Armenian authorities reacted to  the situation only today by noon. The Premier convened a meeting of  the Security Council, and the Foreign Ministry issued a statement.   Even the HRD of Armenia responded just one day later, after serious  criticism of the body by the citizens. All international  organizations - defenders of the protection of human rights - are  also silent. So it turns out that there are still double standards in  the protection of human rights, and humanism is determined by the  color of the skin ... And someone remains unpunished for aggression  and terrorism because energy resources are still more expensive than  "blood of Armenians".

We add that the first provocations by the so-called environmentalists  began on December 3 with the blocking of the Lachin corridor  connecting Artsakh with Armenia. Over the past week, the enemy side  periodically undertook various kinds of provocations both against the  Russian peacekeepers in the NKR 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 the mines.