The statement of Azerbaijan about the unrestricted movement of the RA citizens through the checkpoint illegally installed on Hakari bridge is not true. Artsakh State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan reports.

“When the process of transporting medical patients to RA medical facilities through the ICRC Stepanakert office through the Lachin Corridor has barely been restored, and several days of negotiations are being held to organize each march, so that a civilian is not kidnapped from a car bearing the ICRC logo, Azerbaijan published information yesterday allegedly to show as if the RA citizens pass unhindered through the “checkpoint” installed on the Hakari bridge. Surprisingly, at that moment, the Turkish media also appeared in the same place.

In reality, however, the persons who passed through the “checkpoint” were persons performing civil service in the Russian peacekeeping forces in Artsakh, they were taken to the “checkpoint” by the peacekeeping forces and their vehicles. And before the session of the UN Security Council, Azerbaijan tried to use that incident for the purpose of another staging.

The videos clearly show how the vehicles of the Russian peacekeepers leave their location on 14.08.2023 in the direction of the Lachin Corridor and how people cross from the location of the peacekeepers to the Republic of Armenia at the “checkpoint” he noted.