The Russian Foreign Ministry counts on further humanitarian supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh

The Russian Foreign Ministry expects that humanitarian supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh will continue, it says comments official representative of the department Maria Zakharova on the delivery of food and medicine to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Zakharova said that on September 18, as a result of the efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross and with the participation of Russian peacekeepers and the Russian Foreign Ministry, humanitarian aid was delivered to the region simultaneously from both directions.

“We expect the continuation of unimpeded and regular humanitarian supplies in the interests of the local population,” the statement said.

Moscow also hopes to launch a dialogue between Baku and the authorities of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) in connection with the improvement of the humanitarian situation, Zakharova emphasized.

September 17 NKR authorities agreed for the supply of humanitarian goods along the Lachin corridor and the Agdam road.

The situation around Nagorno-Karabakh deteriorated again in December 2022, when the Azerbaijani State Border Service established a checkpoint in the Lachin corridor, on the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. The crisis led to a change in the leadership of Nagorno-Karabakh.

On September 12, Azerbaijan ensured the passage of humanitarian cargo of the Russian Red Cross Society (ROSC) to the areas of Nagorno-Karabakh controlled by the Armenian side, Vedomosti wrote. On September 3, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, said that Russia was moving away from the South Caucasus, and Russian peacekeepers had ceased to control the Lachin corridor. In the Kremlin statedthat they cannot agree with the prime minister’s theses, emphasizing that Russia is an integral part of the region.