Edmon Marukyan: Int`l organizations that turn blind eye to what is  happening in Artsakh are complicit in Azerbaijan`s crimes

ArmInfo. International organizations that turn a blind eye to what is happening in Artsakh  are accomplices in Azerbaijan's crimes of ethnic cleansing and  genocidal policy.  Ambassador-at-Large of the Republic of Armenia  Edmon Marukyan said in an interview with the Public Television of  Armenia.  "If a person can be detained in the presence of the ICRC,  Russian peacekeepers, then all the remaining formulations of  readiness to cooperate, integrate - simply collapse," he stressed.

Marukyan considers that what is happening is a borderline situation,  for the settlement of which, according to him, solutions to ease the  tension are needed. In this regard, he pointed out the expediency of  starting a negotiation process between Stepanakert and Baku.

On July 29, 68-year-old Vagif Khachatryan, who, accompanied by the  International Committee of the Red Cross, was taken from Artsakh to  Armenia for treatment, was abducted by representatives of the  Azerbaijani border service and taken away in an unknown direction.  For several hours, nothing was known about his fate. Later, the  Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan informed about the decision  to detain Khachatryan, accusing him of war crimes allegedly committed  in 1991.

On July 26, Armenia sent a humanitarian convoy to Nagorno-Karabakh  (361 tons - flour, pasta, granulated sugar, vegetable oil, milk  powder, salt, baby food and medicines on 19 trucks), which is still  standing in the border zone near Kornidzor. 

Since December 12, 2022, Artsakh has been under siege due to the  closure of the Stepanakert-Goris- Berdzor (Lachin) interstate highway  by Azerbaijan, as a result of which the rights of 120 thousand  inhabitants of the country, including 30 thousand children, were  violated.  Despite the fact that on February 22 the International  Court of Justice granted Armenia's demand and ordered Azerbaijan not  to impede the free movement of goods, people and vehicles through the  Lachin corridor in both directions, Baku has not yet complied with  this legally binding decision.Moreower, on April 23, Azerbaijan  established a checkpoint in the Lachin corridor in the zone of  responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. And after the  June 15 incident, the Azerbaijani side completely blocked the Lachin  corridor, as a result of which even humanitarian aid, including food  and medicine, is not delivered to Nagorno-Karabakh.