Illegal blockade of Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan continues for 25 days. Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this at the start of the Government session.
“That operation, which caused a humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, has caused a wide international response of calls to unblock the corridor. Despite this, Azerbaijan is not taking any step to settle the issue.
By closing the Lachin Corridor, Azerbaijan is violating its direct commitment in the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, which raises serious questions about the contractual capacity of official Baku. At the same time, Azerbaijan is trying to attribute to Armenia a practice of not fulfilling its obligations, which is fictitious.
It is also important to record that various reasons are given regarding the closure of the Lachin Corridor, but, in my opinion, the most profound and real reason is that the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh continue to live in their homeland. The international community has begun to more clearly record Azerbaijan's visible policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh,” said Pashinyan.
The Prime Minister noted that in this sense, Armenia expects more objective steps from the international community, including Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, whose peacekeeping troops are deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh, and keeping the Lachin Corridor under its own control is its direct obligation by the November 9, 2020 trilateral statement.
