The situation around the Lachin Corridor requires immediate action: PACE co-rapporteurs urge to realize the great potential of cooperation between Armenia and Kuwait - Nikol Pashinyan 

"The situation around the Lachin Corridor requires immediate action," emphasized Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland), co-reporters of the Armenian monitoring of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), who visited Armenia on February 17-19 to assess the situation around the Lachin Corridor and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. and Boriana Åberg (Sweden) in a statement issued yesterday.

"As of today, the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh cannot leave the region freely. Only the International Committee of the Red Cross and the vehicles of Russian peacekeepers are allowed to drive through that corridor, which is clearly insufficient to meet the needs of the population. Furthermore, it is vitally important that the products can be delivered in time for the sowing season,” the statement said.

The co-rapporteurs, referring to the statement of November 9, 2020, emphasize that the free movement of all types of vehicles must be urgently restored.

Mirzoyan and Klaar emphasized the importance of resolving the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh due to Azerbaijan's blocking of the Lachin Corridor

On February 25, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar.

As we learn from the press release of the Foreign Ministry, during the meeting the latest developments in the process of normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations were discussed.

The imperative of resolving the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of the blocking of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan was emphasized.

Bayramov discussed the "situation around Lachin road" with an ICRC representative in Azerbaijan

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov met with the head of the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Azerbaijan Dragana Kozić. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.

According to the report, during the meeting "the situation around Lachin road was discussed".

It is noted that Jeyhun Bayramov "expressed his satisfaction with the free movement of vehicles, including those of the ICRC, goods, and citizens on the Lachin road".

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan asserted that "taking into account the fact that in recent months, means of transport have passed through Lachin road, the Armenian side has no grounds to claim that Lachin road was closed by Azerbaijan and that a humanitarian crisis was created as a result."

5 patients transferred from Artsakh to Armenia

Accompanied by the Red Cross, 5 medical patients were transferred to Armenia today. This was reported by Zara Amatuni, head of communication and prevention programs of the ICRC Armenia office.

"Five medical patients and their companions were transferred to Armenia for examination and further treatment," said Amatuni.

The Artsakh information center of Artsakh reports that 8 medical patients who were transferred to Armenia for treatment within the framework of the state order have returned to Artsakh with their companions.

Planned surgeries continue to be suspended in the medical facilities operating under the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

In the "Arevik" medical unit, 2 children are in the neonatal and intensive care units. At "Republican Medical Center" CJSC, 6 patients are in the intensive care unit, and 3 of them are in critical condition.

Until today, 127 patients have been transferred from Artsakh to Armenia with the mediation and accompaniment of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The European MPs arriving in Armenia will convey information to their colleagues, reconfirming the closure of the Lachin Corridor

The European MPs who arrived in Armenia on a fact-finding mission will convey information to their colleagues and confirm that the Lachin Corridor is still illegally closed today.

European Parliament deputies Sylvie Guillaume and Francois Alphonse were in Armenia on February 21-24.