The Artsakh government has thanked those U.N. Security Council member states who, on August 16, called for the urgent unblocking of the Lachin Corridor.

The Artsakh Foreign Ministry, in a statement today, scolded those U.N. Security Council member states who, in their remarks on August 16, failed to specify Azerbaijan as the main cause of the Karabakh humanitarian crisis and rather called on both sides to reach a compromise on the issues that divide them.

“There can be no compromise between, on the one hand, the universal values of freedom, human dignity, peace and justice, and, on the other hand, extreme manifestations of systematic and large-scale violations of human rights carried out with the aim of physical destruction of people,” the ministry’s statement reads.

The ministry says it expects the Security Council to adopt a resolution obliging Azerbaijan to lift its illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor without any preconditions or suggestion of alternate routes to provide humanitarian aid to Karabakh. No such resolution was adopted on August 16.

The Artsakh government has refused to accept any proposals to ship assistance via Aghdam.

The ministry says any attempt to obstruct the Security Council’s efforts to end the siege of Artsakh is tantamount to tacitly approving Baku’s criminal policies.