14:02, 9 August 2023

YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, ARMENPRESS. Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan has held a meeting with United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers Sarah Arkin and Damian Murphy, who recently visited the entrance to the blockaded Lachin Corridor and witnessed the stranded Armenian humanitarian aid convoy. 

During the meeting Grigoryan welcomed the visit of the representatives of the staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Armenia and attached importance to such mutual visits.

The sides discussed a broad range of issues related to the regional and extra-regional security situation. Secretary Grigoryan briefed Arkin and Murphy on the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh resulting from the Azerbaijani blockade of Lachin Corridor, the stance of the Armenian side on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the course of the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

A number of issues of the Armenian-American bilateral agenda were also discussed.