Establishment of Checkpoint by Baku Marks Beginning of New Large-Scale Operation: Bruno Retayo

From April 22 to 25, a delegation led by Bruno Retayo, the head of the French Senate, is in Armenia to participate in events commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The delegation members traveled to the village of Tegh, where a skirmish occurred on April 11, reports 1lurer.am.

“We have arrived to demand the immediate removal of the blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijan, to free 120,000 Armenians who are in horrible conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh, and we are also here to demand the restoration of ties between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. What is the point of commemorating the victims of 1915 if we turn a blind eye to the ethnic and religious cleansing occurring in Nagorno-Karabakh?” Retayo stated during a press conference held in Tegh.

He noted that there is a danger that the installation of a new checkpoint near the entrance to the new road leading to Nagorno-Karabakh, within the area under Russian peacekeepers' responsibility at the Hakari Bridge, marks the beginning of a new large-scale operation that will lead to the permanent closure of the Lachin Corridor.