Artsakh ombudsman: Azerbaijan blatantly ignores ICRC’s special status – Panorama

Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan has denounced Azerbaijan for blocking the passage of the ICRC autos via the Lachin Hall. Under is the total textual content of an announcement launched by the ombudsman on Tuesday.

“This morning, on the illegally put in checkpoint over the Hakari Bridge within the Lachin hall, the Azerbaijani facet once more blocked the entry of the autos transporting sufferers and their accompanying folks to Artsakh, in addition to the already restricted quantity of medicines transported from Armenia to Artsakh by the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross (ICRC). This time Azerbaijan used the false pretext of “smuggling”.

Vehicles belonging to the ICRC are hardly being searched in any a part of the world as completely as they’re completed on the illegally put in checkpoint of Azerbaijan, which goals to intentionally impede the mission of the one worldwide humanitarian organisation in Artsakh.

Azerbaijan clearly ignores the particular standing of the ICRC outlined by worldwide regulation, which envisages the inviolability of ICRC personnel, autos and cargo.

This isn’t the primary case when Azerbaijan intentionally creates obstacles for the actions of the ICRC in Artsakh. Thus, earlier, the Azerbaijani facet demanded to examine the passports and autos of the ICRC drivers, in addition to of the transported sufferers on the illegally put in web site. Since June 15, as a result of obstacles that had arisen, the bilateral transportation of sufferers and their accompanying individuals to Artsakh by the ICRC was fully suspended for 10 days in a row.

By undermining the actions of the ICRC, the Azerbaijani facet as soon as once more proves that humanitarian points and the humanitarian disaster in Artsakh are used as a leverage to place stress on the peaceable inhabitants of Artsakh and create insufferable residing situations for them.

Lately, the Azerbaijani state propaganda machine has been actively selling the unlawful demand to both droop the ICRC Workplace in Nagorno-Karabakh or subordinate it to the ICRC workplace in Baku, continuously searching for a purpose to justify and implement its aim. And as we speak’s incident is a part of the chain of actions aimed toward implementing this vile coverage of Azerbaijan.