Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will attend an emergency meeting of the   UN Security Council on Wednesday to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis in Karabakh.

The Council agreed to hold an emergency meeting on the issue following a request filed by the Armenian government on August 11.

Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Mher Margaryan, addressing the President of the UN Security Council, wrote:

 “Under current circumstances, the Government of Armenia requests the intervention of the UN Security Council as a principal body of safeguarding global security and preventing mass atrocities including war crimes, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and genocide.”