ArmInfo. Azerbaijan's "environmental" activity continues, Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated at a Cabinet meeting on July 13.
He said that Azerbaijan is now trying to bring environmental accusations against Armenia at the official and unofficial levels, attributing deposits that do not exist in our country, indicating far-fetched circumstances, decisions, referring to conventions that are not applicable.
In this regard, the Prime Minister drew attention to the fact that in the global Environmental Performance Index of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University, Armenia ranked 56th in 2022, while Azerbaijan was 104th position.
In addition, Armenia's achievements in the context of transparent and responsible governance of the mining sector are reflected in the publications of the Mining Transparency Initiative.
Returning to the topic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nikol Pashinyan stressed that if in February the Azerbaijani authorities declared that they had nothing to do with the "environmental" action, as a result of which the Lachin corridor was blocked, then today the latter have no opportunity for such statements. "Because now the Lachin corridor is blocked due to the actions of the state structures of Azerbaijan," he said, noting that, therefore, the decision of the International Court of Justice further confirms Azerbaijan's responsibility in the deepening humanitarian crisis in Artsakh.
The same decision, as Pashinyan emphasized, allows the international community to further consolidate to counter the policy of ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan against the population of Nagorno-Karabakh.