Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Secretary General of NATO, today visited the southern regions of Armenia to see with his own eyes the consequences of Azerbaijan’s aggression towards Armenia. Rasmussen, who is now the founding chairman of Rasmussen Global international political consultancy organization, announced about this to reporters in Armenia on Tuesday.
He was in the wonderful city of Jermuk where the mayor showed the negative consequences left in the city after the attack of the Azerbaijani army and how it affected tourism Rasmussen said.
He added that earlier, he visited the Lachin corridor, which is the only connecting link between Karabakh and Armenia, noting that last December, the only road connecting Karabakh Armenians with Armenia was closed, and this blockade of the Lachin corridor is illegal and inhumane.
According to Rasmussen, he met with a group of people in Armenia who lived in Karabakh, and they told him about the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The blockade means that food and medicine are received in very small quantities, and this means that there is a lack of enough food and medicine in Nagorno-Karabakh he said.
Rasmussen said we are facing a humanitarian crisis that could turn into a humanitarian disaster, this blockade is not legal, weeks ago the International Court of Justice of the United Nations obligated Azerbaijan to ensure the unimpeded traffic of transport to Nagorno-Karabakh through the Lachin corridor, that decision is binding, and Azerbaijan is obligated to reopen the Lachin corridor, and Rasmussen called on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to immediately stop the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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