Armenian MP appeals to Russia because of humanitarian emergency in  Artsakh

ArmInfo. A humanitarian emergency in Artsakh is inevitable... Artsakh has been under  Azerbaijani blockade for more than 9 days. Taguhi Tovmasyan,  Chairwoman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Protection of Human  Rights and Public Affairs, stated this.

In this vein, the MP recalled that about 120,000 residents of Artsakh  are suffering from the severe consequences of the humanitarian  crisis.

"As a result of the blockade in the medical institutions of the  Republic of Artsakh, patients in serious and extremely critical  condition cannot be transferred to the medical institutions of  Armenia and provided with proper medical care. Unfortunately, one of  the patients who was in serious condition died:  I warn my  international counterparts: due to impunity of the international  community, we will soon witness massive irreversible consequences,"  Tovmasyan stressed.

She drew attention to the fact that all supplies in Artsakh, as well  as entry and exit, are completely blocked.

"The author of such a flagrant violation of international  humanitarian law - Azerbaijan must be punished.  Sanctions against  Azerbaijan, the use of appropriate international legal and political  instruments is essential to save 120,000 residents of Artsakh from  the aggressor.

In this situation, I addressed the Commissioner for Human Rights, as  well as the Chairman of the Council under the President of the  Russian Federation for Civil Society Institutions Development and  Human Rights , with a special request to send Russian humanitarian  cargo to Artsakh through Russian peacekeepers. I also provided a list  of essentials. The civilized world simply has no right to be  indifferent to 120,000 lives in danger," Tovmasyan concluded.

On December 12 at 10:30 am, a group of Azerbaijanis in civilian  clothes blocked the Stepanakert-Goris highway, again "for  environmental reasons." 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, from the evening of December 13, Azerbaijan also shut off  the valve of the gas pipeline through which gas is supplied to the  population of Nagorno-Karabakh. The gas supply was restored three  days later.

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

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 the Russian peacekeepers in the NKR 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 them to get into the mines.