On February 10, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a phone conversation with Karen Donfried, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry informed NEWS.am.

The interlocutors touched upon regional security issues.

Views were exchanged on the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. Ararat Mirzoyan reaffirmed the urgent need to lift Azerbaijan’s illegal blockade of the Lachin corridor and restore its regular regime defined by the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020, without any preconditions.

From December 12, 2022 a group of Azerbaijanis blocked the Stepanakert-Goris road for environmental reasons, making political demands and keeping 120 thousand people in the blockade for more than two months, creating a humanitarian crisis, including children and the sick. Azerbaijan also periodically cuts off the gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh.

During a meeting of the UN Security Council, convened on December 21, 2022 at the request of Armenia, there was a call to unblock the Lachin corridor. Despite this, as well as numerous calls by the international community, Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh continues.