The hearings of the Human Rights Commission named after Tom Lantos were held in the US Congress on blocking the Lachine Corridor and the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis. Commission co-chairman Chris Smith chaired the hearing. The speakers were Luis Morena Ocampo and David Phillips.

The "Voice of America" radio station reported that speakers at the hearing were Luis Morena Ocampo, a former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and David Phillips, director of the Human Rights and Peace Program at Columbia University. Both described blocking the Lachin Corridor as a genocide of the people of Nagorno Karabakh. Emphasizing in his speech that blocking the Lachine Corridor and making essential goods unavailable to the local population creates the conditions for genocide, Ocampo spoke about the responsibility of the US to prevent genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"At the time of the elections, two seats were empty: those of the US State Department and USAID. I asked both departments to send representatives. "Despite repeated requests by phone and email, there was no response," Smith said.

The speakers stressed that it is necessary to act as quickly as possible. At the end of the hearing, Congressman Smith summed up the hearing and emphasized the need to act soon: "Delay is tantamount to denial." The congressman repeated Ocampo's words, adding that the process leading to starvation in Nagorno-Karabakh is progressing "at a terrible speed" and delay will lead to new victims.