Hearings on situation in Nagorno-Karabakh to  be held on September 14

ArmInfo.Hearings in the International Relations Committee of the US Senate on the situation in  Nagorno-Karabakh are scheduled for September 14. Information about this is posted on the Committee's official website, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports. 

According to the source, Ms. Yuri Kim, Acting Assistant Secretary  Bureau of European and Eurasian Affair at the US State Department and   Mr. Louis Bono, Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations Bureau of  European and Eurasian Affairs at the US State Department, were  invited to the hearings.

On September 6, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the US  House of Representatives held a hearing on the disastrous situation  in Nagorno-Karabakh resulting from the closure of the Lachin corridor  by Azerbaijan. During the hearing, two key speakers, Luis Moreno  Ocampo, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and  David Phillips, a professor at Georgetown University and director of  the Artsakh Atrocities Research Project at Columbia University,  emphasized that Ilham Aliyev's regime is pursuing a policy of  genocide against the Karabakh Armenians.

Meanwhile, the United States has again called on Azerbaijan and  Armenia to work together  to open  all communications for the  delivery of humanitarian supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh. This was  stated by Ms.  Yuri Kim, Acting Assistant Secretary Bureau of  European and Eurasian Affair at the US State Department. Yesterday,  the ambassador spoke separately with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia  and Azerbaijan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov.

During the conversations, Washington's serious "concerns regarding  the humanitarian situation in Nagorno- Karabakh" were expressed.  <Opening routes and direct negotiations are the key to resolving  outstanding issues. We urge all sides to work together now to  immediately & simultaneously open Lachin and other routes to get  desperately needed humanitarian supplies into Nagorno-Karabakh>, the  Ambassador wrote in her account in X.