On August 16, RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Ararat Mirzoyan emphasized the imperative to prevent the humanitarian disaster in Nagorno-Karabakh and the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh due to Azerbaijan's illegal blocking of the Lachin Corridor for more than eight months.
Ahead of the extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council, Ararat Mirzoyan emphasized the effective use of existing mechanisms by paragraph 6 of the tripartite statement signed by the leaders of Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan on November 9, 2020, and the decisions of the International Court of Justice of February 22 and July 6, 202, the need for clear steps to immediately remove the blockade of Lachin Corridor.