U.S. to deploy  response team in South Caucasus

ArmInfo.U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power said  that the United States will deploy a Disaster Assistance Response Team in the South Caucasus region due to the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, Reuters reports.

According to the source: "The United States on Thursday will announce  it has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team in the South  Caucasus region to coordinate the U.S.  humanitarian response to the  crisis after Azerbaijan took back control of Nagorno- Karabakh last  week," she said. 

It is noted that the tasks of the Team will be "to assess the  situation, identify priority needs to scale up assistance, and work  with partners to provide urgently needed aid".