EU welcomes simultaneous humanitarian cargo passage via Lachin & Aghdam – Charles Michel

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 18. The EU welcomes
the simultaneous passage of humanitarian cargo by way of Lachin and
Aghdam-Khankendi roads in Azerbaijan, the European Council’s
President Charles Michel wrote on X (Twitter), Pattern reviews.

This should now be regularized, he added.

In keeping with Michel, it is also important to launch talks between
Azerbaijan’s authorities and representatives of Armenian residents
of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh on their rights and safety, which the EU
stands able to assist.

In the meantime, the separatists in Karabakh lastly submitted to
Azerbaijan’s situations and agreed to the simultaneous opening of
the Lachin highway and the Aghdam-Khankendi highway. Thus, the separatist
leaders determined to just accept the joint proposal of the workplace of the
Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC) in Khankendi and
the command of the Russian peacekeepers [temporarily stationed in
Azerbaijan under the trilateral statement signed by Azerbaijani,
Armenian, and Russian leaders following the 2020 second Karabakh
war] on simultaneous transportation of meals by ICRC automobiles alongside
the Lachin highway and the Aghdam-Khankendi highway.

The settlement on the simultaneous opening of those routes was
truly reached on September 1. The separatists delayed this
course of for greater than two weeks.

Vans belonging to the ICRC, parallel to the Aghdam-Khankendi
highway, additionally handed via the Lachin border checkpoint.