Armenia is set to send 400 tones in humanitarian aid to the residents of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), who have been deprived of essential goods due to a blockade by Azerbaijan for more than six months.

Dozens of trucks with humanitarian aid from Armenia intended for Artsakh are parked in Yerevan and waiting to deliver the aid.

"Today, two dozen trucks loaded with humanitarian aid will deliver 400 tons of humanitarian aid to Kornidzor, from where it is planned to transfer the aid with the help of Russian peacekeepers to the people of Nagorno Karabakh, which has been under blockade for 227 days,” Taron Chakhoyan, the deputy head of the Prime Minister's Office, wrote on Facebook.

The Government had announced earlier that the working group for the management of the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno Karabakh made decisions regarding sending urgent humanitarian aid to  Nagorno Karabakh. The Government had not detailed how the aid would be delivered to the besieged Artsakh.