ArmInfo. Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, yesterday had a telephone conversation from Brazil with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
According to the French Foreign Ministry, among other issues, the interlocutors also discussed the situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan, reviewing efforts under way to resolve the conflict and emphasizing the need for free movement along the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor to be immediately restored.
"The serious humanitarian consequences of the current deadlock on the people of Nagorno-Karabakh are unacceptable, and France and the United States are combining their efforts to end the situation, through their contacts between Prime Minister Pachinyan and President Aliyev," the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Since December 12, 2022, for 61 days now, the Azerbaijani side, under a far-fetched environmental pretext, blocked the only road connecting Artsakh with the outside world. The population of the NKR has been in a blockade for the second month, deprived of basic means of subsistence. Since January 9, Artsakh has been deprived of the opportunity to receive electricity from Armenia, due to the destructive actions of Azerbaijan. Rolling blackouts occur on a daily basis in the republic. Moreover, from noon on January 12, the enemy side also interrupted the communication cable that provides the country's population with Internet and telephone communications. It was restored only on January 14. The enemy periodically hinders the gas supply to Artsakh.
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