Azerbaijan discontinues natural gas supply to Karabakh
YEREVAN, December 13. /ARKA/. Azerbaijan has deliberately discontinued natural gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh Information Center reported.
"Under such weather conditions, cutting off the supply of blue fuel is a humanitarian and economic terrorism that Azerbaijan consistently carries out against the peaceful population of Nagorno-Karabakh," it said in a statement.
Karabakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan confirmed the information.
"Azerbaijan cut off the gas supply on the whole territory of Nagorno-Karabakh (the Armenia-Nagorno-Karabakh gas pipeline runs through the territory controlled by Azerbaijan), at the same time the people of Artsakh have been in a complete blockade for 32 hours. If this is not a crime, then what," he tweeted.
Azerbaijan first disrupted the supply of natural gas to Karabakh on March 8, 2022 for 11 days ‘ to fix damage to a pipeline’ pumping natural gas from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh on a section passing through Baku-controlled territory.
Gas supply was resumed on March 19, but again was interrupted on March 21 when Nagorno-Karabakh’s authorities accused Baku of having turned off the valve on the pipeline that the Azerbaijani side had installed during the repairs. – 0-
