In an interview given to the Armenpress news agency, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated that Azerbaijani side seems to be confused in its discourse about the blockade of the Lachin Corridor.
“Azerbaijan often insists that the corridor is not blocked, then says that the corridor is blocked for environmental reasons, and when it was announced that the exploitation of the mine in question had ceased, people claiming to be “eco-activists” demanded inspections of Red Cross vehicles and humanitarian cargo passing through the corridor. Then, they broke into the vehicle that was transporting children back home to Nagorno-Karabakh accompanied by Russian peacekeepers and subjected them to psychological terror. Now, these actions are justified by the fictitious transfer of military mines.
I would like to emphasise once again that the Republic of Armenia carried out minelaying works only within the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia and purely for self-defence purposes, as it had faced military aggression by Azerbaijan in May 2021, November 2021 and September 2022. The threat of new military aggression against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia still remains high.
The military mines that the Azerbaijani side displays for propaganda purposes and declares that they were manufactured in 2021 and recently transported from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh through the Lachin Corridor, actually were taken by Azerbaijan from the occupied territory of Armenia as a result of the Azerbaijani aggression against the Republic of Armenia in 2021-2022,” Mirzoyan stated.
