Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, at a government cabinet meeting today, said that Azerbaijan is pursuing a policy to make it impossible for Artsakh Armenians to live in their homeland.

Pashinyan said that Artsakh is facing an humanitarian crisis following Azerbaijan’s cutting off natural gas to Artsakh on March 21.

Pashinyan also accused Azerbaijan of deliberately sabotaging the gas pipeline on March 7 and then preventing repairs.

He said that despite the unprecedented snow and cold weather in Artsakh, Armenians there will overcome this ordeal.

Pashinyan said that Baku’s claim of victory in the 2020 war rings somewhat hollow since 117,000 Armenians still reside in Artsakh.

He said that Azerbaijan’s recent statement that the gas supply issue is an “internal matter” means that Baku doesn’t want the international community to focus on what is happening in Artsakh, namely the Aliyev regime’s policy of ethnic cleansing.

"Azerbaijan is trying to implement its policy of escalating new escalations and new wars in the region, but we must not give in to these provocations," Pashinyan said.