16:57, 4 August 2023
STEPANAKERT, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Demonstrators in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) plan to organize a peaceful march towards Hakari Bridge where Azerbaijan has installed an illegal checkpoint and is keeping Lachin Corridor blockaded.
The demonstrators have formed an organization called the People’s Movement for Unblocking of the Corridor to organize the rally.
Artur Osipyan, a member of the movement, told ARMENPRESS that they see a solution to the situation through peaceful struggle.
“Based on the current situation, a large number of peaceful, unarmed residents can go to Hakari and resolve the issues on the ground, meaning to negotiate. This doesn’t mean that we are renouncing the state bodies of Artsakh, contrary to the opinions claiming that with this step we’d be doing what Aliyev told us to do. That’s not so. With this people’s movement we are once again raising the issues that we’ve raised before, to show that there are no criminals in Artsakh who’ve usurped power and are dictating their will, but that the people and the government actually concur in all the matters concerning the self-determination and the status of Artsakh. This movement is an independent people’s movement. This is a new idea of pan-national movement, that we must go and unblock the corridor ourselves,” Osipyan said.
He said that they want to rally thousands of citizens and unblock the corridor because the Russian peacekeepers and the international community are not resolving the issue.
Osipyan did not provide timeframes of the expected march.
‘We will announce the rally when we’ll see that the majority of the society is ready for it,” he said.
Van Novikov