With Nagorno-Karabakh under blockade for 8 months, Armenia seeks urgent UN Security Council meeting
In his letter to the president of the UN Security Council, sent Friday and released by Armenia's Foreign Ministry on Saturday, Armenian UN ambassador Mher Margaryan said the people of Nagorno-Karabakh were "on the verge of a full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe."Since December, Azerbaijan has blockaded the only road leading from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh, severely restricting the delivery of food, medical supplies and other essentials to the region of about 120,000 people.
Armenia's appeal comes after the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court warned Tuesday that Azerbaijan is preparing genocide against ethnic Armenians in its Nagorno-Karabakh region and called for the UN Security Council to bring the matter before the international tribunal. "There is a reasonable basis to believe that a genocide is being committed," Luis Moreno Ocampo wrote in his report, noting that a UN convention defines genocide as including "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction."
Nagorno-Karabakh is a region within Azerbaijan that came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian military in separatist fighting that ended in 1994. Armenian forces also took control of substantial territory around the region.
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