Artsakh Prosecutor General`s Office issues statement over  humanitarian catastrophe in Republic caused by Azerbaijan 

ArmInfo. Since December 12 of this year, a group of Azerbaijani citizens, posing as environmentalists, illegally occupied the road connecting Artsakh with Armenia under false pretenses, thereby stopping traffic and cutting off the only  connection between the citizens of Artsakh and the outside world.  This is stated in the statement of the General Prosecutor's Office of  the Republic of Artsakh.

The statement notes that Azerbaijan deliberately stopped the supply  of gas from Armenia to Artsakh for two days. In connection with these  acts, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Artsakh  initiated criminal proceedings, the investigators carried out  investigative actions, the National Security Service of the Republic  of Artsakh organized operational-search activities, as a result of  which the data obtained proved that:

-The vast majority of Azerbaijani citizens who organized the seizure  of the Stepanakert-Goris highway are former or current employees of  the special services;

-The raised environmental problem is used only as a way to justify  their own actions and make them look reasonable;

-Azerbaijan pursues the goal of undermining the foundations of the  Artsakh Republic's economy, depriving the population of a source of  income and jobs;

-The actions carried out by the citizens of Azerbaijan contradict the  the provisions of the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020, to  the status quo recorded by it;

-Citizens of the Republic of Artsakh, as indigenous and right  holders of that territory, have the right to manage, possess and use  the land, surrounding natural environment, nature and subsoil of that  territory by force of international law, which Azerbaijan is trying  to ignore and neutralize.