Nobody starving in Karabakh – Armenians refute their own lies about “blockade”

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 8. The so-called
“activist” Artur Osipyan from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh urged to
abandon attempts to deceive the world by claiming Armenian
residents of Karabakh are starving to death, Trend reports.

He made the remark in response to Armenian media regarding “food
problems” for Armenian residents of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region
and rumors about the residents’ food supply, denying these
claims.

He stressed that the separatist regime of Karabakh exploited
this region for 30 years, refuting that the bread queues are due to
the so-called ‘blockade’ by Azerbaijan.

“One part lived well while others struggled to afford bread,”
Osipyan added.

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withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement of November 10,
2020), and as an adequate response to the unilateral establishment
of a border checkpoint by Armenia on the border with Azerbaijan on
April 22, 2023, at the entrance to the Lachin-Khankendi road
contrary to the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, on April
23 this year, 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.

Despite the fact that Azerbaijan ensured the passage of Armenian
residents, representatives of the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) and the Russian peacekeeping contingent through
the border crossing, the Armenian side spread false allegations
about the alleged “tense humanitarian situation” in the region in
order to continue its illegal activities in our territories.

At the same time, she committed provocations, such as shelling
our border guards on June 15, an attempt at smuggling, sending
trucks to the territory of Azerbaijan on July 26 without
permission.

Moreover, despite the fact that Azerbaijan put forward a number
of proposals for meeting the needs of Armenian residents of
Karabakh, including the use of the Aghdam-Khankendi road and other
alternative roads, and they were supported by the European Union
and the ICRC, the Armenian side opposes these proposals and blocked
the entrance to the territory by erecting concrete barriers on
alternative roads. All this once again showed that its statements
about the “humanitarian situation” are political blackmail.