Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office visits Kornidzor and will report on Lachin corridor

YEREVAN, August 25. /ARKA/. Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Bujar Osmani, dispatched by the latter to the Lachin corridor to look into the situation on the ground,. visited today the Armenian village of Kornidzor, located at the entrance to the corridor.

"I visited the Lachin corridor. I was tasked to visit the areas adjacent to the Lachin region, to look into the current situation, and to report on it to OSCE Chairman-in-Office," Kasprzyk told reporters.

He said he had held numerous meetings over the previous days. "And now, as you can see, I am here. I will go back and report on the situation," Kasprzyk said.

Since July 26, a convoy of more than 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Armenia and France for Nagorno-Karabakh has been standing in the Kornidzor waiting for Azerbaijan permission to enter Nagorno-Karabakh.

For eight months now, 120,000 Armenians in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) have been under complete blockade of Azerbaijan with no food, medicine, fuel, gas or electricity.

The Lachin corridor, the only road connecting Artsakh with Armenia and the rest of the world was initially blocked by Azerbaijani government-sponsored fake “eco-activists” on December 12, 2022.

Azerbaijan officially institutionalized the blockage of the road by an illegal checkpoint installation on April 23, 2023, grossly violating its international obligations.

Azerbaijan continues to demonstrate a willful disregard for the provisions of the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020, the ECHR ruling of December 21, 2023, as well as ICJ orders issued on February 22 and July 6, 2023, calling on Azerbaijan to urgently “take all measures at its disposal to ensure unimpeded movement of persons, vehicles and cargo along the Lachin Corridor in both directions.” -0--