The co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, are obliged to put an end to Azerbaijan’s impunity, Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Gegham Stepanyan said on Thursday, January 12.

Since December 12, the sole road connecting Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia - the Lachin Corridor - has been blocked by self-described Azerbaijani environmentalists. Karabakh residents have reported food and fuel shortages, while hospital patients don't have access to essential medicines, with only a handful allowed transfer to facilities in Armenia proper. Azerbaijan has also deprived the people of Karabakh from access to Internet services.

“In the conditions of the complete blockade of Artsakh, this method of infrastructural intimidation aims to subject the civilian population of Artsakh to additional suffering and create unbearable human conditions in Artsakh,” Stepanyan wrote on social media.

“Azerbaijan's behavior is an insult to the agenda of human rights, humanitarian values, and civilization. States and international structures, and first of all the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, the RUSSIAN FEDERATION, the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, and FRANCE, are obliged to put an end to Azerbaijani criminal permissiveness and impunity.”