Armenian MP debunks myths about alleged ‘food shortage’ in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh

BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 27. Shirak Torosyan, a
member of the ruling party of the Armenian parliament, has
dispelled the myths about the so-called ‘food shortage’ and
‘hunger’ among the Armenians living in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh,
Trend reports.

Responding to an interviewer who claimed that Azerbaijan has
allegedly ‘blockaded’ the Karabakh region, from which ‘food
shortage’ followed, Torosyan said that there is no hunger in
Karabakh, and “there is no need to exaggerate”.

It is necessary to remind that, in order to prevent the
transportation of manpower, ammunition, mines, as well as other
military equipment from Armenia for illegal Armenian armed groups
on the territory of Azerbaijan (which weren’t withdrawn contrary to
the trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijani, Armenian and
Russian leaders following the 2020 second Karabakh war), and as an
adequate response to the unilateral establishment of a checkpoint
by Armenia on the border with Azerbaijan on April 22 at the
entrance to the Lachin-Khankendi road contrary to the trilateral
statement of November 10, 2020, on April 23 at 12:00 (GMT+4), the
units of the State Border Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan set
up a border checkpoint in its sovereign territories, on the border
with Armenia, at the beginning of the Lachin-Khankendi road.

The Armenian side, in turn, has repeatedly made false
statements about the emergence of a humanitarian crisis against
Armenians living in Karabakh, especially after the provocations
that resulted in the injuring of an Azerbaijani serviceman at the
Lachin border checkpoint, after which Baku’s official decision to
close the checkpoint followed. However, what is happening in this
area shows that the road is not closed for humanitarian purposes,
contrary to the claims of the Armenian side.