Speaker of Armenian Parliament once again calls on international  partners to impose sanctions against Azerbaijan

ArmInfo. RA NA President Alen Simonyan addressed with an official letter on Lachin crisis to the heads of parliaments of more than 30 countries and the Presidents  of the International Parliamentary Organizations. In the document,  particularly attention is drawn to the issue of the blockade of the  only road connecting the Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia, the Lachin  corridor for more than a month.

As the press service of the RA NA reports, the letter says that the  blocking of the Lachin corridor being under control of the Russian  peacekeeping forces is a gross violation of the international  obligations assumed by the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020  by Azerbaijan.

Touching upon the 120.000 Armenians living in Artsakh and being under  blockade, it is noted that the in Nagorno Karabakh the humanitarian  crisis deepens day by day. "The risk of malnutrition gradually  becomes more tangible. 41 kindergartens and 20 schools are closed.  Thousands of children are deprived of the right to education.

Moreover, this blockade impedes the free move of the Nagorno Karabakh  population.  During the last weeks at least 1.100 civilians remained  blocked along the highway, being unable to return to their houses,"  the official letter says. A reference is also made to the 270 minors  who have received temporary shelter in Armenia, and their parents are  in Artsakh.

The RA NA President informs that today Nagorno Karabakh lives in the  conditions of isolation with extreme electricity shortages, without  services of vital importance for life and accessibility of goods.

"This siege is nothing but vivid continuity of the consistent policy  of ethnic cleansing being carried out by Azerbaijan," the document  says.

In the letter it is mentioned that a number of governments, including  France and the United States, together with the European Union, the  European Parliament and numerous national parliaments, the UN, the  human rights organizations, the well-known international  organizations being engaged with the issues of genocide condemned  this illegal and hostile action and called on to urgently and  unreservedly unblock the corridor.

"Once again underlining the determination of the Armenian side to  build peace and stability in the region, we call on the international  colleagues to undertake additional measures for preventing the grave  situation in Nagorno Karabakh, including the use of sanctions against  Azerbaijan," the RA NA President's letter is concluded with these  lines.  This is the second similar official letter by the RA NA  President Alen Simonyan to his international colleagues. The Head of  Parliament also addressed his colleagues on this issue on December  14, 2022 after the adoption of the RA NA Statement on Causing  Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno Karabakh by Azerbaijan."