MEP urges EU action to end Azeri blockade of Artsakh
A member of the European Parliament and the European People’s Party, Peter van Dalen, has urged EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to take immediate action to end the ongoing Azerbaijani blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
“The brutal results of the Azeri-blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh; empty shops and desperate people. Why is the EU so silent?! I do not understand! Josep Borrell must act now!” he said in a tweet on Friday, sharing a BBC report on the Artsakh blockade.
For more than three weeks, large groups of Azerbaijanis posing as eco-activists have blocked the Lachin Corridor, the sole road connecting Artsakh to Armenia, to protest what they claim is illegal mining.