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.