U.S. Senate Staff Visit Site Of Stranded Armenian Aid Convoy For Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenia - Representatives of the staff of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Kornidzor, 8August,2023

A delegation led by representatives of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, Sarah Arkin and Damian Murphy, has visited the site in Armenia's southern Syunik Province where an Armenian convoy of 19 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been stranded for nearly two weeks by Azerbaijan's closure of a checkpoint on the only access road to the region. Syunik Governor Robert Ghukasian on August 8 accompanied the visiting U.S. officials, who did not wish to talk to the media. The United States and the European Union have urged Azerbaijan to allow humanitarian supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh via the Lachin Corridor road. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Armenian Service, click here.