Babayan: Blockade of the only road linking Armenia with Artsakh is  another manifestation of Azerbaijan`s genocidal policy

ArmInfo.The blockade of the only road linking Armenia with Artsakh is another vivid  manifestation of Azerbaijan's genocidal policy. Acting Minister of  Foreign Affairs of Artsakh David Babayan stated on December 13 at a  press conference in Yerevan, touching upon the situation in the  Berdzor (Lachin-az.) corridor due to the actions of Azerbaijan.

He admitted that he was unable to return home from his business trip  due to these hostile actions.

At the same time, Babayan called on the international community to  curb Azerbaijan, recalling what deplorable consequences these  Armenophobic steps of the Azerbaijani side could lead to.

In turn, Artsakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan recalled that now 120,000  Artsakh residents are under blockade. "I also note that Artsakh has  no connection with any country by air. And this is a violation of  elementary human rights. And this is all done on the direct orders of  the President of Azerbaijan. Naturally, those gathered there are not  environmentalists at all, moreover, there are reliable reports that  most of them are employees of the Azerbaijani special services," the  Ombudsman noted.

Stepanyan recalled that for the second day in a row Artsakh has been  deprived of the opportunity to receive medical supplies, emergency  supplies, food, energy resources (gasoline, diesel fuel). According  to him, more than 1,000 citizens, including 270 children, are  deprived of the opportunity to return home.

"This is another element of Azerbaijan's genocidal policy, which is  carried out in a systematic and coordinated manner," said the Human  Rights Defender of Artsakh.

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.