Official Yerevan has denounced the installation by Azerbaijan of a checkpoint on the road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia as “illegal” and “unacceptable”, calling on Russia to live up to its commitments to provide the security of the mostly Armenian-populated region.
In a move condemned by Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani authorities on Sunday set up a checkpoint on the only road connecting the mostly Armenian-populated region with Armenia.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian charged on Thursday that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is “preparing the ground for a genocide” against Karabakh Armenians.
Official Baku has urged authorities in Yerevan to stop “making unfounded statements and interfering in Azerbaijan’s internal affairs” after Armenia raised the issue of another disruption of natural gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh affecting the humanitarian situation in the region.
Armenia has demanded that the United Nations take steps “to restore its neutral position in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict” as it protested the participation of the global organization’s officials in an event that Azerbaijan held in a key Karabakh town earlier this week.