Artak Beglaryan, the adviser to the Minister of State of the Republic of Artsakh, reports that the Azerbaijani side has cut the optical fiber cable of the Internet, disrupting the stable connection of Artsakh.

"Yesterday, August 17, at 5:55 p.m., near the illegal checkpoint located in the Berdzor (Lachin) corridor, the Azerbaijani side cut the fiber optic cable of the Internet, disrupting Artsakh's stable connection with the Internet.

Yesterday evening, Artsakh specialists tried approaching the given section with Russian peacekeepers and repairing the cable, but the Azerbaijani side did not allow it. Negotiations between the peacekeepers and the Azerbaijani side have been ongoing since this morning so our specialists can restore the damaged cable.

I do not consider it a coincidence that this new crime took place after the session of the UN Security Council and 5 minutes before the start of the planned press conference on the Artsakh Genocide. As a result of this provocation, the speakers from Artsakh at the press conference, Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan and displaced citizen Alvina Nersesyan, were able to connect with the other two speakers, Foreign Minister Sergey Ghazaryan and First Prosecutor General of the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo, with a 45-minute delay. Despite Azerbaijan's efforts, the press conference was held, attended by around 130 people from 27 countries.

By the way, now a minimal amount of Internet is available in Artsakh through unstable radio communication, which is also continuously under the pressure of Azerbaijani jamming systems," Artak Beglaryan said in a post on his Facebook page.