11:31, 7 September 2023

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan continues to keep Lachin Corridor under blockade and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh has reached its culmination, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Thursday.

“It is obvious that with these actions, Azerbaijan is showing its intention to commit a new military provocation against Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia. Fake and untrue narratives are being circulated in an attempt to justify such a provocation,” Pashinyan warned at the Cabinet meeting.

The Armenian Prime Minister said the situation requires the international community, UN Security Council members to take serious measures to prevent a new outbreak in South Caucasus.

“At the same time, I underscore the commitment of the Republic of Armenia to the agreements reached on 14 December 2021 in Brussels, 6 October 2022 in Prague and in 2023 in Brussels, as well as the 9 November 2020 trilateral statement signed by the President of Russia, the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia. Baku-Stepanakert dialogue within the framework of international mechanisms for addressing the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and the unblocking of the Lachin Corridor in line with the 22 February and 6 July 2023 rulings of the International Court of Justice is significant. Based on all of this the Republic of Armenia is ready and willing to sign a treaty on peace and normalization of relations with Azerbaijan, and we express our commitment to the peace agenda,” PM Pashinyan said.