At the behest of the civilized world, Azerbaijan banned the transportation of 25 Armenian medical personnel accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, dozens of people accompanied by Russian peacekeepers, and humanitarian cargo.
After the military provocation near Hakari Bridge on June 15, Azerbaijan has blocked all types of humanitarian transportation, including people and goods, in both directions at the illegally installed checkpoint.
The Azerbaijani side did not allow the transportation of 25 medical patients and their accompanying persons from Artsakh to Armenia accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, who were forced to return to Stepanakert.
The scheduled transportation of dozens of people with urgent humanitarian needs and vehicles with humanitarian cargo accompanied by the Russian peacekeeping troops along the Stepanakert-Goris highway was also cancelled.
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Azerbaijan, with the above-mentioned steps, once again grossly violates its international obligations to ensure the safe and unimpeded passage through the Lachin corridor under the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020 and disregards the implementation of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) decision of February 22, 2023.
Eventually, the civilized world should understand that the continuation of Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic cleansing is proof of the undeniable fact that there is no alternative to the realization of the right to self-determination of the people of Artsakh, the aggressor Azerbaijan must be punished as soon as possible, because impunity, as history proves, brings a new genocide.
Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs, nonpartisan Taguhi Tovmasyan
