The inhabitants of Artsakh are cut off from the world, warn the Armenian authorities.
On Monday, December 12, around 9 a.m., a group of Azerbaijani activists - at least a hundred according to videos relayed on social networks - landed on the road linking Yerevan to Stepanakert, capitals of Armenia and the Republic of Upper -Karabakh.
Pitching tents across the way, the group has forbidden any passage through this unique route linking the inhabitants of the landlocked territory to Armenia.
“
All correspondence is blocked.
The 120,000 Armenians of Artask are isolated
,” the authorities warned at a press conference on Tuesday.
On Monday, nearly a thousand people were waiting along the highway, with temperatures below 0°C.
Among them, 270 children, some of whom attend the Eurovision Junior final, held on December 11 in Yerevan.
Trucks carrying food products, but also ambulances were prevented from circulating on this entrusted passage…
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