Samvel Sahramanian “will remain in Stepanakert with a team of officials until the end of search and rescue operations for the dead and missing”
The leader of the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which capitulated to Azerbaijan, vowed today to remain in the region’s capital until the end of rescue operations for the victims of the conflict.
Samvel Sakhramanian “will remain in Stepanakert with a team of officials until the end of search and rescue operations for the dead and missing due to military operations” and the deadly explosion at a fuel tank in late September, the country’s government said in a statement. self-proclaimed democracy.
The 24-hour attack launched by Baku on September 19 and 20 in the Armenian-majority enclave left nearly 600 people dead in total.
More than 100,000 residents fled the area
It also forced more than 100,000 Nagorno-Karabakh residents to flee their homes and flee to Armenia for fear of reprisals from Azerbaijan.
But at least 170 of them died trying to escape, from an explosion that occurred at a fuel tank located on the only road connecting the region to Armenia.
Many drivers had stopped at the gas station in the Stepanakert district, one of the few still in operation.
The enclave government also said it “will continue to focus on the situation of citizens who want to move to Armenia.”
Nagorno-Karabakh has been at the center of two wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the first in the 1990s and the second in 2020. The independence of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh has not been recognized by any UN member state.
Source :Skai
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