The pro-government majority in the Armenian National Assembly on Tuesday
rejected an opposition resolution on Azerbaijan's blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
The resolution drafted by the opposition Hayastan and Pativ Unem factions condemned the Azerbaijani blockade of the Lachin Corridor, the sole road connecting Artsakh to Armenia, which has led to a deep security, humanitarian and economic crisis.
Denouncing Baku’s non-compliance with the World Court order to unblock the corridor, the document insisted on the exercise of the Artsakh people’s right to self-determination and the extension of the Russian peacekeeping forces’ mandate in Karabakh.
It also called for the Armenians in Artsakh to stand up for their rights.
The draft resolution was presented by Hayastan MP Andranik Tevanyan.
MP Maria Karapetyan of the ruling Civil Contract party argued that the parliament had already passed a resolution on the Lachin Corridor, stressing the opposition-drafted document said nothing of the deployment of an international monitoring mission to Nagorno-Karabakh and the corridor.
The ruling faction MPs abstained from voting to hold debates on the resolution and it was not put on the agenda of today’s sitting with a vote of 28 in favor.