It has been 8 months since the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the world was blocked. The situation of the detained inhabitants is critical.
Calls are still being made to address this tragic situation. A special letter has been issued by the World Council of Churches and the Conference of European Churches. The Armenian authorities have requested an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council. “The world powers are witnessing the genocide of the 21st century and are not doing anything about it,” said the Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia, Raphael Bedros XXI Minassian.
Karabakh blockade
The blockade of the Lachin corridor is carried out by the Azerbaijani authorities – in this way they hope to finally break the Armenians and take over their land, which is formally in Azerbaijan. The Patriarch of Cilicia insists that these actions are a crime. Nearly 120,000 people are isolated from the world. people, including children, the sick and the elderly. Everything is missing on site. Hunger is particularly serious. Farmers can only produce a fraction of what is possible under normal conditions because they lack electricity and fuel. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan tightened its blockade in June, even barring access to humanitarian transports.
“This country is crying out for justice,” said the Patriarch of Cilicia. He emphasizes that expressions of sympathy are not nearly enough – real action must be taken. The European Union and Russia tried to mediate to reach an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but these efforts were unsuccessful. The last Nagorno-Karabakh war ended in 2020 with an Azerbaijani victory. The armistice that ended the fighting was signed under the auspices of Russia and it was the Russian army that was supposed to be the guarantor.
The need to negotiate
Unlike Moscow, which poses as the “main mediator” in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, but does everything it can to freeze it, the European Union is fully interested in achieving peace in the South Caucasus. This is mainly due to the opening of regional transport routes, in particular the Zanjezur Corridor. “The opening gives the European Union a direct transport route to China, bypassing Russia – via Turkey, Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia,” noted the main Moldovan TV channel on the eve of the European summit. political community held in Chisinau on June 1 “Moldova-1”.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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