Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, at a government cabinet session today, said his July 20 meeting in Brussels with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and EU Council President Charles Michel, failed to achieve any progress towards unblocking the Lachin Corridor.

Pashinyan said that while he and Charles Michel have called for direct talks between the Artsakh government and Baku, such dialog must be supervised by the international community given Azerbaijan’s policy of forcing Armenians to leave Karabakh by cutting off food and energy supplies.

Pashinyan added that Azerbaijan continues to break the promises it made to international partners on the POW issue and their return.

Despite Baku’s continued rejection of international calls to open the Lachin Corridor, Pashinyan said his government will pursue a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.

“Now, our task is to draw greater international attention to the humanitarian crisis established in Nagorno Karabakh through diplomatic methods and by presenting the situation there in the international press and social networks as widely and objectively as possible," said Pashinyan.