INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Armenia on Thursday implicated Russian peacekeepers of failing to secure ethnic Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh area and called for an
international peacekeeping force to step in
The behaviour of Russian peacekeepers is undesirable to us
They have actually become silent spectators [in Karabakh], Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.Moscow has actually rebuffed the
criticism.Russia released peacekeepers in Karabakh under a ceasefire it brokered in 2020 to end a six-week war between Armenia and
Azerbaijan over the long-disputed enclave.Earlier this month Armenia accused Azerbaijan of producing a humanitarian crisis in Karabakh by
blocking the sole land link connecting the mountainous enclave to Armenia.Karabakhs 120,000 occupants are primarily ethnic Armenians and
depend upon the important land link, called the Lachin passage
The blockade has resulted in shortages of foods and medicines in the enclave, which has been managed by Armenian separatists since the
territory broke away from Azerbaijan in 1991 and has actually been contested by the two countries ever since
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh anticipate Russia to say how it plans to get the Lachin passage uncloged, Pashinyan told a conference of his
federal government on Thursday.Pashinyan said Russia had carried out to ensure the security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh
Seemingly implying that Moscow was either not able or unwilling to satisfy its commitments, Pashinyan said it should either look for a UN
required for its peacekeepers, which would give them more authority to act, or permit a multinational peacekeeping contingent into the
region.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova turned down Pashinyans accusation
The criticism of Russian peacekeepers in this circumstance is undesirable, she said
Russian peacekeepers are doing everything possible to enhance the circumstance on the ground
Azeri ecological activists have been obstructing the Lachin passage for over two weeks to object at what they state is unlawful mining in
The Azeri government says the demonstration is spontaneous and civilian transport is able to move easily in both instructions in between
Armenia and Karabakh.But Yerevan has actually accused Baku of staging the demonstrations.On Thursday, the Armenian separatist authorities in
Karabakh said they were suspending gold and copper-molybdenum mining by an Armenian industrial group in the enclave.When the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991, Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan
Around 30,000 individuals died in the ensuing conflict.Armenia and Azerbaijan combated another war over the territory in autumn 2020
The battling claimed more than 6,500 lives and ended with a Russian-brokered truce that saw Yerevan cede to Baku areas it had controlled for
