Since 12 December of this year, a group of Azerbaijani citizens, posing as environmentalists, illegally occupied the road connecting Artsakh with Armenia under false pretenses, thereby stopping traffic and cutting off the only connection between the citizens of Artsakh and the outside world. For two days, Azerbaijan deliberately stopped the supply of gas from Armenia to Artsakh.

In connection with these acts, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Artsakh initiated criminal proceedings, the investigators carried out investigative actions, the National Security Service of the Republic of Artsakh organized operational-search activities, as a result of which the data obtained proved that:

– The vast majority of Azerbaijani citizens who organized the seizure of the Stepanakert-Goris highway are former or current employees of the special services.

– the raised environmental problem is used only as a way to justify their own actions and give them a sensible look.

– Azerbaijan aims to undermine the foundations of the economy of the Republic of Artsakh, depriving the population of a source of income and jobs.

– the actions of the citizens of Azerbaijan contradict the provisions of the tripartite statement of 9 November, 2020 and the status quo recorded in it.

– Citizens of the Republic of Artsakh, as the indigenous inhabitants and owners of this territory, have the right to dispose, own and use the land, natural environment and subsoil of this territory by virtue of international law, and Azerbaijan is trying in every possible way to ignore and neutralize this right.