Yesterday, on the 66th day of the illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, Azerbaijan restored the supply of natural gas to Nagorno-Karabakh, but closed the gas pipeline again two hours later, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced at the start of the Government sitting.
"For the first time, Azerbaijan closed the natural gas pipeline to Nagorno-Karabakh on February 7, and before that it opened it on January 29.
From January 9, 2023, the power supply to Nagorno Karabakh is blocked.
As a result of the illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, a humanitarian crisis has started in NK, as a result of the energy blockade, the humanitarian crisis has worsened, and at the same time, an environmental crisis is unfolding, because the population of NK has to use wood for heating their apartments and other household needs, for which forests are cut down.
This is an indisputable proof that the environmental motives behind the blockade of Lachin Corridor are fake, and Azerbaijan's actions have a goal to complete the policy of ethnic cleansing of NK Armenians", said Pashinyan.
The Prime Minister stressed that if until now the international community was skeptical about this claim of the Armenian side, now this is becoming more and more obvious.
"It is no coincidence that the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued statements three times in the last three months regarding the illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor and the rhetoric of the Azerbaijani leadership.
In a recent similar statement, published on January 18, 2023, the Lemkin Institute asks the world leaders to take seriously the threat of [another possible] Armenian genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh. This alarm throughout the world should grow louder every day, and efforts in this direction should be continuous", he said.
