Peacefully picketing in Yerevan

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Several dozen doctors in white coats from different parts of the country asked the UN and the international community to intervene immediately and help avoid the humanitarian disaster in the region. Doctors came out with the slogans “No borders for doctors”, “I demand to let me see my patients”, “Help us save them” and others.

Tatyana Hovhannisyan, Chairperson of VIVA Doctors and Volunteers – Armenia Charitable Non-Governmental Association said: “All the attempts of the doctors of our Foundation to deliver medicines to the Republic, withdraw seriously ill patients from it and enter the territory of Artsakh have failed. Our wards remain in the territory blocked by Azerbaijani citizens: these are children, patients in serious health condition, the elderly, people with physical disabilities.  

We believe that the global community will see and hear WHAT is happening, intervene and help us save the lives of the civilian populations. We are not pursuing any other goals except saving people, the goals to which we have devoted our entire lives.”

It is already the fourth day that the “Road of Life” – Lachin Corridor remains blocked. This is the only road linking the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic with Armenia. All this time there has been no opportunity to supply the necessary products, medicines and other vital goods. The Azerbaijani side has also cut off gas supply to the entire region. About 120 thousand people live on the territory of which 30 thousand are children.

Credit: VIVA Foundation’s archive