Artsakh Parliament Speaker addresses leaders of OSCE Minsk Group  Co-Chairs

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.