The Foreign Ministry of Nagorno Karabah has confirmed that the latest deliveries of medical supplies occurred on July 7, while the latest delivery of food occurred June 14.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement on August 18 that it remains the only humanitarian organization operating across the Lachin corridor to respond to growing humanitarian needs. The latest deliveries of medical supplies occurred July 7, while the latest delivery of food occurred June 14. The ICRC urged decision-makers to find a compromise and make it possible to resume urgently needed humanitarian deliveries.
“While [Azerbaijani Presidential aide] Hikmet Hajiyev spares no effort to ‘prove’ that the ‘Lachin Corridor is open’, the international community replies back with the statement of ICRC that ‘latest deliveries of medical supplies occurred July 7, while the latest delivery of food occurred June 14’,” the Karabakh Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.
Since December 12, 2022, the sole road connecting Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia – the Lachin Corridor – has been blocked by Azerbaijan. Baku tightened the blockade on June 15, 2023, banning emergency relief supplies that were carried out by Russian peacekeepers and the International Committee of the Red Cross through the sole road connecting Karabakh to Armenia and the outside world. The move aggravated the shortages of food, medicine and other essential items experienced by the region’s population. On August 15, Karabakh Human Rights Defender’s office reported the first case of death from starvation.
