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Trucks with humanitarian aid for Artsakh parked in a road towards the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Armenia, on July 28, 2023
ARMENIA has called on the United Nations security council to hold an emergency meeting over the worsening humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
In his letter to the council’s president, sent on Friday and released publicly on Saturday, Armenia’s UN ambassador Mher Margaryan said the disputed region inside Azerbaijan was “on the verge of a full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe.”
Azerbaijan has blockaded the only road leading from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh since December, severely restricting deliveries of food, medical supplies and other essentials to the region of about 120,000 people.
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