Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan, at a protest rally outside the U.N. office in Yerevan, has charged the international community of inaction three days after Azerbaijan closed the Lachin Corridor, the sole roadway linking Artsakh and Ar
Aliyev, a trilateral meeting of the heads of state of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey in Turkmenistan, said 40% of the work on laying the railway tracks and 70% on the construction of the highway has been completed.
The Artsakh government, against the backdrop of the closure of the Lachin Corridor and the halt of natural gas supplies, has closed most schools in the country and began rationing fuel as part of a new set of regulations inaugurated today.
The Armenian National Assembly, by a vote of 57-0, today adopted a statement calling on the international community to condemn Azerbaijan’s blocking of the Lachin Corridor and the cutting off the natural gas supply.
France deplores the obstacles placed for more than 24 hours on traffic on the access corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, which has serious humanitarian consequences for the local population.
his follows a well-documented pattern of abuses against the Armenian people that is motivated by the bombastic rhetoric of the Aliyev regime to dehumanize them.
We call on the government of Azerbaijan to restore free movement through the corridor.