2024-05-14 19:58:12
Artsakh State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan’s assertion relating to the vitality, financial, humanitarian and environmental terrorism carried out by Azerbaijan.
“Within the situations of the 146-day blockade of the Republic of Artsakh, since January 9, it has been 117 days, Azerbaijan is disrupting the electrical energy provide from Armenia to Artsakh by way of the one high-voltage energy transmission line, finishing up vitality, financial, humanitarian and environmental terrorism, inflicting extra difficulties and sufferings to the individuals of Artsakh.
As earlier than, through the blockade of Artsakh, Azerbaijan repeatedly disrupted, and since March 22, it has lastly blocked the provision of fuel by way of the one Armenia-Artsakh pipeline, which has additionally led to severe humanitarian and financial issues, in addition to the inevitable improve in home electrical energy manufacturing and energy provide. methods overload.
Underneath such situations, the Republic of Artsakh is pressured to make use of solely the inner infrastructure of electrical energy manufacturing, consisting of 6 hydroelectric energy vegetation, of which solely the Sarsang reservoir hydroelectric energy plant accounts for about 70 p.c of the full capability. Since earlier than the interruption of electrical energy provide by Azerbaijan, the home product of Artsakh met about 30 p.c of the demand, since January 9, to be able to meet the minimal vitality demand of the inhabitants, the Artsakh authorities needed to apply plenty of extra measures, together with the suspension of all main financial enterprises, day by day electrical energy fan outages, most capability operation of all present HPPs, and many others.
Consequently, not solely plenty of humanitarian and home difficulties have appeared, but additionally severe environmental issues associated to the fast depletion of the assets of the Sarsang reservoir. In comparison with the identical interval of final yr, from January 9 of this yr to as we speak, virtually 3 times extra water was launched from the Sarsang Reservoir to make sure the manufacturing of the minimal quantity of electrical energy, and the water influx was virtually two occasions much less as a result of dryness of the present yr’s local weather. Now the water assets of Sarsang have reached the vital restrict, about 88 million m³ (about 15% of the full water capability), approaching the useless (unusable) quantity of about 70 million m³.
This case not solely places in danger the prospect of electrical energy provide for the inhabitants of Artsakh and deepens the struggling of individuals, but additionally has already led to a big damaging impression on the setting, together with drying up of springs, deterioration of the microclimate, decline of plant and animal species, and many others. The rapid non-regulation of the state of affairs and the non-restoration of the traditional electrical energy provide to Artsakh will inevitably result in a pointy aggravation of the above-mentioned vitality, financial, humanitarian and environmental issues and, finally, a humanitarian catastrophe.
It’s noteworthy that all through the interval of independence, in distinction to the Soviet years, the water of the Sarsang reservoir was used completely for the aim of irrigating Azerbaijan’s agricultural lands (about 96,000 hectares), as a result of Azerbaijan has all the time blocked the canal that irrigates the lands of Artsakh. Nevertheless, by intentionally and criminally disrupting the electrical energy provide from RA to Artsakh, upsetting a man-made vitality disaster and forcing the Artsakh facet to actively use the very restricted water assets of Sarsang, Azerbaijan, in reality, in addition to subjecting the individuals of Artsakh to vitality, financial and environmental terrorism, can also be depriving its personal individuals. from the opportunity of getting sufficient irrigation water from the Sarsang Reservoir through the sizzling summer season months. The truth is, it was additionally for the talked about felony functions that the brokers of the federal government of Azerbaijan, in civilian garments, or “eco-terrorists”, allegedly fought so vigorously, maintaining the individuals of Artsakh underneath siege.
Confronted with the specter of depletion of Sarsang’s water assets and the home potential of Artsakh’s vitality manufacturing and the approaching hazard of a humanitarian catastrophe, we as soon as once more name on the whole worldwide neighborhood, the related worldwide buildings, the governments of nations and all those that are really involved in regards to the rights and safety of the Artsakh individuals, to not ignore the vitality, humanitarian, this catastrophic environmental and financial state of affairs and take rapid steps to power Azerbaijan to desert such medieval, terroristic and merciless habits in direction of each individuals and the setting”.
Connected: satellite tv for pc pictures of the Sarsang Reservoir in 2023. as of January 1 and April 28, with a floor of 705.8 and 671.5 meters above sea degree, respectively