The Artsakh government today dismissed an Azerbaijani proposal to ship forty tons of wheat to the country via the Aghdam roadway.

Azerbaijani media outlets report the Azerbaijani Red Crescent plans to send two trucks loaded with forty tons of flour to the town of Aghdam, near the Karabakh border, today as a "humanitarian gesture".

ArtsakhPress writes that Artsakh presidential spokesperson Lusineh Avanesyan described the proposal as a ploy aimed at deflecting international attention from the blockade and the resulting grave humanitarian crisis.

Avanesyan said Baku should fully reopen the roadway connecting Karabakh to Armenia according to the Russian-brokered 2020 ceasefire.

She accused Baku of “false philanthropy”.

Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan also ruled out accepting any aid through the Aghdam roadway when he addressed hundreds who rallied in Stepanakert’s central square on Monday night.

News.az reports the two trucks have reached Aghdam.

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