ICRC helps 19 people reunite with their families in Armenia
YEREVAN, January 30, /ARKA/. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that acts as a neutral intermediary in the Nagorno-Karabakh standoff has facilitated the transportation of 19 people from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, Zara Amatuni, Communications Manager at ICRC in Armenia, said.
According to her, they are not people with urgent medical needs but citizens who were separated from their families because of Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin corridor, which is the only road linking Karabakh and Armenia.
Routine shipments of basic supplies, medicines, and food on which Nagorno-Karabakh is utterly dependent have remained completely shut off since last December 12 when Azerbaijan blocked the only road linking Karabakh and Armenia.
A handful of International Red Cross humanitarian convoys have been allowed to take medicines and some food from Armenia. The situation has become untenable for the 120,000 Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev said earlier the road out was open to any Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian who wished to leave.-0-
