Azerbaijan keeps the Lachin corridor connecting Armenia to Artsakh closed

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. 12 children are in the neonatal and intensive care units, and 12 patients are in the intensive care unit.  5 are in critical condition.  During these days, 10 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 critical condition died.

The action on the corridor of Lachin will continue until it achieves a result. This was announced by Hikmet Alizadeh, the head of the state service of ecological security of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan.

Alizadeh noted that "the demands of environmentalists are very normal".

 "Participants of the action demand necessary conditions for monitoring in that area. I think the action will continue until it achieves results," Alizadeh said.

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire in the Martuni region - Police of the Artsakh Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Martuni region.  This is reported by the Police of Artsakh Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On January 6, at 13:35, resident of Hatsi village of Martunu region I. Abrahamyan appealed to the police that around 13:00, while doing agricultural work with the "Belarus 82-1" tractor operated by him in the area called "Kaghnun tak" of the administrative area of ​​Hatsi village, a round of fire was fired from a rifle from the adjacent Azerbaijani combat position in the direction of the tractor.

Agricultural work has been stopped.

The Martuni regional department of the police transferred the data to the Russian peacekeepers.

The Ministry of Defense denies reports that the fire on the mountain near the village of Verishen was caused by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces

The information spread in the media that the fire started on the mountain near the village of Verishen was caused by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, does not correspond to reality. The spokesman of the RA Ministry of Defense Aram Torosyan informed about this on his Facebook page.

According to the message of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire extinguished by itself at 22:33.

It should be reminded that according to the report of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, information was received that grass is burning on the mountain near the village of Verishen in the Syunik region. At 10:33 p.m., information was received that the fire has extinguished by itself.

Armenia will continue negotiations with Turkey in order to fully regulate relations - RA Foreign Ministry spokesperson 

Armenia positively assesses Turkey's move to lift the ban on direct air cargo transportation, Vahan Hunanyan, the spokesperson of the RA MFA, stated about it.

"Naturally, we positively assess Turkey's move to lift the ban on direct air cargo transportation. As in the past, Armenia will constructively continue the negotiations both on the other agreement reached by the special representatives on July 1, to ensure the possibility of crossing the land border for the citizens of third countries, as soon as possible, and on the complete settlement of Armenia-Turkey relations, that is, the two countries in order to establish diplomatic relations and open the Armenian-Turkish border," he noted.

The RA Foreign Minister and the manager of the US International Development Agency had a telephone conversation

On January 6, RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and US Agency for International Development (IDA) manager Samantha Power had a telephone conversation.

During the telephone conversation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia presented to the USAID manager the worsening humanitarian situation because of the blocking of the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia - the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan since December 12. Minister Mirzoyan stressed that Azerbaijan's actions are aimed at subjecting 120 thousand of Artsakh Armenians to ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Emphasizing that Azerbaijan grossly violates its obligations assumed by the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020, the RA Foreign Minister emphasized the clear steps of the international community aimed at restoring the normal operation of the Lachin Corridor and preventing a humanitarian disaster.

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