U.S. Ambassador to OSCE responds to Armenian MP`s letters on  situation around Berdzor Corridor

ArmInfo.Armenian MP Taguhi Tovmasyan left the following Facebook message: 

"'I called on Azerbaijan and Russia "to restore unhindered transit  immediately in keeping with prior commitments': Dr. Michael  Carpenter, U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE /U.S. Mission to the OSCE/ has  responded to my letters on the situation around Berdzor Corridor.

"With my many letters addressed to Dr. Michael Carpenter, U.S.  Ambassador to the OSCE I had alarmed about the Humanitarian Emergency  in Artsakh, vital issues of 120 000people of Artsakh, which is under  blockade by Azerbaijan. 

"I voiced the additional problems created by Azerbaijan in the sense  that as a consequence of the destructive position of Azerbaijan, it  was impossible to have access to the accident zone in Berdzor-  Aghavno section and implement electricity supply restoration works,  thus serious problems of electricity supply to Artsakh had appeared  in the conditions of cold winter.

"I had also informed the Ambassador Carpenter about the emotional and  psychological violence against 19 Armenian children by Azerbaijan and  justified the existence of the evidence for the violation of the key  provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"I had requested Dr. Carpenter:

"To take concrete steps in the framework of his mandate/competence to  impose sanctions against Azerbaijan's political authority which has  given the order to break into the children's bus and implement  psychological terror against the Armenian children; 

"To take all the possible steps to ensure the access of the Armenian  side to the Berdzor-Aghavno section to restore electricity supply to  Artsakh.   

"With the response letter Ambassador Carpenter thanks for my letters  in which I had raised my concerns about the human rights situation  related to the Lachin Corridor and in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"The Ambassador notes: 'Be assured the United States is seized with  the matter, both in Washington and through our embassies in Baku and  Yerevan, and I am personally following developments closely. 

'I called on Azerbaijan and Russia to restore unhindered transit  immediately in keeping with prior commitments'.

"The Ambassador adds that they will continue to work with Azerbaijan  and Armenia bilaterally, multilaterally through partners such as the  European Union, and through international organizations like the OSCE  to reach a comprehensive and sustainable settlement for this  conflict, which has gone on for far too long and taken too many  lives."