ArmInfo.Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh Artur Tovmasyan addressed the leaders of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries - Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and American leader Joe Biden.
The statement, in particular, reads: "Today is the 25th day, as the only road connecting Artsakh with Armenia and the outside world, continues to be closed.
The Artsakh issue was the only conflict on which all the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group adhered to an almost unified point of view.
The people of Artsakh, faced with an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, by and large need not only targeted statements, but also, I think, effective and visible steps are needed in this direction.
Patients with serious health problems are deprived of necessary medicines and medical services, Artsakh is deprived of supplies of baby food, food and basic necessities.
We call on the civilized world, in particular the co-chairing countries of the Minsk Group, to take concrete actions to open a corridor or an air bridge to the Stepanakert airport, which will to some extent prevent the alarming humanitarian crisis in Artsakh in the winter season."
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.