Forthcoming U.N. Security Council meeting to be ‘test for efficiency of international actors,’ says Nagorno-Karabakh

STEPANAKERT, AUGUST 15, ARMENPRESS. The Nagorno-Karabakh foreign ministry has said that the August 16 U.N. Security Council emergency meeting will be a “test for efficiency of international actors.”

The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting Wednesday in response to a call from Armenia. Permanent Representative of Armenia to the U.N., Mher Margaryan, in an August 11 letter addressed to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the current President of the U.N. Security Council, said that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh are on the verge of a full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the Azerbaijani blockade and called for an emergency meeting. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. said that the emergency open meeting will take place Wednesday afternoon.

“On Aug 16, UNSC will convene an emergency meeting to discuss deteriorating humanitarian situation caused by Artsakh Blockade imposed on the civilian population of Republic of Artsakh by Azerbaijani authorities. This meeting is a test for efficiency of international actors,” the Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Facebook.