David Babayan sends letters to number of international organizations  and foreign embassies in Armenia over blockade of Artsakh

ArmInfo.On December 14, Acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of Artsakh David Babayan sent letters to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, OSCE  Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, Head of the  EU Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Andrea Wictorin, Head of the CE  Office Martina Schmidt,

Acting Permanent Coordinator of the United  Nations in the Republic of Armenia Christine Weigand, Ambassadors of  the Russian Federation, the United States of America, the Republic of  France, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Federal Republic of  Germany, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,  the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Greece, the  Commonwealth of Australia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Federal  Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the Republic of Armenia, and a  series of other international organizations.

As the press service of the NKR MFA reports, the letters presented  the current situation in Artsakh occurred due to Azerbaijan's  blocking of the only road connecting Artsakh to the outside world and  disrupting the supply of natural gas from Armenia to Artsakh.

The documents assessed Azerbaijan's policy and actions as a gross  violation of international law, international humanitarian law and  the trilateral statement signed on November 9, 2020 by Armenia,  Azerbaijan, and Russia.

The letters called upon the officials and organizations to use all  the necessary measures to condemn Azerbaijan's aggression, deter its  rampant actions, and lift the blockade of Artsakh.

The necessity of giving the proper assessment to Azerbaijan's actions  was stressed in the letters.

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