Minister of Health: It is impossible to transport severe patients  from Artsakh to Armenia by air ambulance

ArmInfo.It is impossible to transport severe patients from Artsakh to Armenia by air  ambulance. Minister of Health of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan stated this  during the briefing. When asked by journalists why it is impossible  to do this under the conditions of the blockade of the only land road  of life for Artsakh, the minister limited herself to a stable  combination of "because".

"There is a humanitarian crisis, and this is obvious. For several  days now, Artsakh has been deprived of the road of life, and we  believe that the people are facing a big crisis. But everyone is  doing their best to solve this problem a minute earlier," she said.

In particular, in this regard, the minister noted that all possible  links are used to put pressure on Azerbaijan.  She said that the  Ministry has applied to the Red Cross, WHO (World Health  Organization), and other international organizations. Avanesyan noted  that she expects from the latter not written answers to the stated  problem, but pressure and effective steps. For example, she noted  that the WHO regional office in Azerbaijan could use all its leverage  to transport severe patients from Artsakh to Yerevan.

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.