Situation around Berdzor corridor is out of CSTO area of  responsibility - Stanislav Zas

ArmInfo. The Collective Security Treaty Organization proceeds from the fact that the solution of the issue with the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor, which Yerevan raises  at the international level, is beyond its area of responsibility.  CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas states.

"There were no such appeals (from Armenia regarding the situation on  the Goris-Stepanakert road - ed.  note), we proceed from the fact  that this is within the zone of responsibility of the CSTO," said  Zas, RIA Novosti reports.

It should be noted that yesterday, during a press conference, Zas  stressed the unacceptability of the blockade of the road and the  creation of a humanitarian crisis.

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.