Monday, December 26 2022 19:30

ArmInfo.Participants of the rally met with the Deputy Commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent (RPC) in Nagorno-Karabakh at the checkpoint in the Lachin  corridor.

After the meeting, one of the organizers of the rally, Samvel  Movsisyan, said that the Russian side had noted that it would not be  able to ensure their safe passage to Nagorno-Karabakh. "We were told  that they could not ensure our safe passage and that clashes and  provocations were possible. Naturally, the life of each of us is  important and we cannot move forward if our security cannot be  ensured," Movsisyan said.

According to him, the peacekeepers are waiting for the results of the  summit meeting to be held today in St.  Petersburg.

He also called on the citizens to join their initiative so that tens  of thousands of our compatriots, or rather several hundred citizens,  would be at the checkpoint.

Earlier, a group of 5 people held a meeting with representatives of  Russian peacekeepers in order to travel to Nagorno-Karabakh along the  Lachin corridor.

It should be noted that on December 26, the participants of the motor  rally from the Republic Square from Yerevan headed to the Lachin  corridor. Many of the rally participants are implementing various  projects in Artsakh.

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 after environmental requirements, also  voiced political ones, namely 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.  

We emphasize that on December 25 a large rally was held in  Stepanakert demanding to unblock the road of life. According to some  estimates, up to 70 thousand people attended the rally. In total,  about 120 thousand citizens live in the Republic.