Azerbaijan’s representation in NATO blamed Yerevan for the situation around the Lachin road, saying that “gets so desperate as #Lachinroad is no longer available for its illegal activities, plundering natural resources, transfer of weapons and personnel, as it should have been in the letter and spirit of Trilateral Statement.”

 “The present blockade is designed to, in the words of the Genocide Convention, “deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the end of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group in whole or in part,” the mission’s Twitter account said in a statement.

 As Interfax-Azerbaijan reports, the country’s representation in NATO stated that “Lachin road is the sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, which has agreed to be used exclusively for humanitarian purposes in accordance with the sixth point of the tripartite declaration, and even less than two years of operation.”  delivered the new way.”

 “Azerbaijan has conscientiously fulfilled all its obligations, and Armenia has been using the Lachin road for illegal activities since the first days.  Armenia has also not opened all transportation communications in the region, which is a gross violation of point 9 of the tripartite declaration,” the NATO mission emphasized.

 “Armenia used the Lachin road for the illegal transportation of weapons and personnel,” the statement said.

 Since December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan has closed the Lachin Corridor connecting Artsakh to Armenia, as a result of which 120,000 residents of Artsakh, including 30,000 children, were under siege.  1100 civilians, including 270 minors, cannot return from Armenia to Artsakh.

Because of the blockade, it is not possible to deliver 400 tons of food and medicine from Armenia to Artsakh every day, as a result of which there is a shortage of food and medicine.

 350 patients cannot receive treatment in Armenia.  13 children are in the neonatal and intensive care units, 13 patients are in the intensive care unit.  6 are in critical condition.  During these days, 13 Armenians and 4 foreigners in need of emergency medical care were transferred to Armenia only through the mediation of the Red Cross, and one of the patients in Artsakh who needed medical care and was in a critical condition died.