Head of NGO: Protest in Shusha will end when Volkov arrives in area

The ongoing protest on the Shusha-Khankandi road will end when Major General Andrey Volkov, the commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces temporarily stationed in a part of the Karabakh economic region, arrives in the area, Gamza Yusubova, the head of the Environmental Education and Environmental Monitoring NGO, a participant of the protest, said in her statement to the employee of Report sent to Shusha.

"We have specific questions for him. We have also sent a request to the Russian Embassy. We have informed them about the concern over the looting of our national resources in the lands subjected to environmental terrorism during the 30-year occupation of Azerbaijani territories. Although the war has been over for two years, environmental terrorism continues in the area under the control of the Russian peacekeeping forces temporarily stationed in the Karabakh economic region," she said.

She noted that in the appeal addressed to the embassy, it was emphasized that conditions were not created for conducting monitoring in those areas:

"There are representatives of the Armenian people there. Since we are a tolerant country, we do not want a conflict. It is the direct duty of the peacekeepers to create conditions there, and we must know what is happening in our lands. Although we wanted to monitor it last week, we were not allowed to do so. The action will be considered completed when Volkov comes, and we tell our demands. He should also promise that our ecologists will monitor the lands of Azerbaijan, where Armenians live. We're not moving from here until he comes."