Freedom House: Azerbaijan must cease its blockage of  Lachin corrido,  only road connecting Nagorno- Karabakh to outside world 

ArmInfo. We call on the international community to reiterate its support for negotiations without coercion. Azerbaijan must cease its blockage of the Lachin  corridor- the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside  world. This is stated in a statement by the  Freedom House  organization.

"We are disturbed by reports that Azerbaijan has also cut off the gas  supply to Nagorno-Karabakh once again. We call on the Azerbaijani  government to restore unhindered gas supplies to the people of the  region," the statement notes. 

"Minsk Group countries and the sides of the Nov. 9, 2020 trilateral  statement to take the necessary steps to ensure the rights and  security of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, including their  freedom of movement. "

It should be noted that on December 12 at 10:30 am a group of  Azerbaijanis in civilian clothes blocked the Stepanakert-Goris  highway. 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, on the evening of December 13, Azerbaijan also closed  the valve of the gas pipeline that supplies gas to the population of  Nagorno Karabakh. The international community reacts rather  sluggishly to this terror perpetrated by Aliyev's dictatorial regime. 

It is noteworthy that the Azerbaijanis who blocked the  Stepanakert-Goris highway "started changing their tune", now they  demand control and activities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and  the State Security Service of Azerbaijan throughout the territory of  the Republic of Artsakh.

Late on December 13, more than 24 hours later, the US State  Department, France and the EU called for traffic to be restored. 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. Over the past week, the  enemy side periodically undertook various kinds of provocations, both  against Russian peacekeepers 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 these mines. According to independent  analysts, the creation of a humanitarian crisis in Artsakh and the  actions of "activists" are sponsored by the British Anglo Asian  Mining company and supported by the British Embassy in Baku.