Azerbaijan keeps Lachin Corridor blocked for already eight days

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan is keeping Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) blockaded for already eight days, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan tweeted.

“8 days Lachin corridor is closed by [Azerbaijan] and people of Nagorno Karabakh are stuck on the roads in the cold, families are finding themselves in different sides of the blockade. Citizens with serious health problems are deprived of medicine and health service,” Pashinyan tweeted.

8 days Lachin corridor is closed by #Az and people of Nagorno Karabakh are stuck on the roads in the cold, families are finding themselves in different sides of the blockade. Citizens with serious health problems are deprived of medicine and health service.

— Nikol Pashinyan (@NikolPashinyan) December 19, 2022

Azerbaijan blocked the Lachin Corridor – the only road connecting Nagorno Karabakh with Armenia and the rest of the world – on December 12. A day later, Azerbaijan cut off gas supply to Nagorno Karabakh but restored it on December 16. The road remains blocked.