Nagorno-Karabakh threatened with starvation - Armenia`s premier 

ArmInfo."There is a humanitarian catastrophe in Nagorno Karabakh.  What is a humanitarian catastrophe? No food is being supplied to Nagorno Karabakh. There is no external supply of food. A number of essential commodities are not being supplied, baby food is not supplied, medication is not available, no hygiene supplies, no other essential goods are there, natural gas supply to Nagorno Karabakh was interrupted by Azerbaijan, electricity supply to Nagorno Karabakh was interrupted by Azerbaijan, the supply of fuel was interrupted by Azerbaijan.

So in this sense, there is a real threat of hunger, we are facing there as well as health  problems, and so on and so forth," Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan  said in an interview with Euronews. 

As to the fact that Azerbaijan keeps denying the blockade and  insisting that the Aghdam road is accessible, Armenia's premier said: 

"I don't know what you are referring to, because I am speaking about  the document that I signed, which has the status of an international  document. It reads clearly that the Lachin Corridor, which is under  the control of the Russian peacekeepers, and that's not just a road  but a 5-km wide area, must be out of Azerbaijan's control and it must  ensure a link between Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia.

"In principle, it may sound absurd, but the road from the moon to  Nagorno Karabakh is open too, but I cannot refer to institutions  unknown to me. I am speaking about what is documented. And that road  is now closed, if anyone doubts, he can right now take a trip and try  to reach Nagorno Karabakh. By the way, the ICRC announced yesterday  that it is no longer able to deliver humanitarian relief to Nagorno  Karabakh because of the Lachin Corridor being closed. What does this  mean? This means that the ICRC officially declared that humanitarian  aid needs to be delivered to Nagorno Karabakh, otherwise they  wouldn't say they are unable to do that, secondly, it accepts that  they cannot do it because the Lachin Corridor is closed.  This was  followed, if I am not mistaken, the announcement of "Freedom House",  saying it's necessary to ensure access of humanitarian goods to  Nagorno Karabakh.

"Yesterday the Government of Armenia decided and today this relief is  on-route, 400 tons of humanitarian goods are currently on-route to  Karabakh. Let's see if this reaches Nagorno Karabakh. Ander the  trilateral statement and the International Court's decision, that aid  must reach them. Let's see if it reaches Nagorno Karabakh.

"Going back to the humanitarian crisis, of course in Nagorno  Karabakh, especially in this season, there are some agricultural  activities, however, the Azerbaijani army are shooting at farmers and  equipment. After 2020, we have had cases of a tractor driver being  killed by an Azerbaijani sniper while carrying out agricultural work.  But there are no longer tractors operating, because there is no fuel.  And because of the absence of fuel, people cannot harvest the crop,  if by some miracle they harvest the crop, grains for instance, this  harvest cannot reach, cannot be transported to flour mills because of  the absence of fuel, if by some miracle they turn it into flour, then  because of the absence of fuel, it cannot be delivered to bakeries to  bake bread. Because there is no electricity or gas, if by some  miracle the flour reaches the bakeries, they cannot bake bread at  industrial volumes. If somehow some bread is baked, again because of  the absence of transportation, that bread is hard or impossible to  delivered to the shops. If it gets delivered to the shops, there is  no public transport, and there is no private transport, again because  of the absence of fuel, for the people to go and buy that bread from  the shop. If somehow they manage to get to the shop, because of this  blockade, all enterprises have shut down, all people have lost their  jobs and people do not have income to buy bread in the shop. If by  some miracle they have income to buy bread, the queues are so long  and the goods are so scarce that if by some miracle you reach the  shop, that miracle after miracle, after this chain of miracles, if  they reach the shop, they may never get to buy that limited goods.

"Think of baby food. Imagine, young mothers cannot feed babies with  baby food. Many of them may have not breastfed from the beginning,  they started with formula, and one day baby food just disappeared."