Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan today addressed the U.N. Security Council regarding the situation in Nagorno Karabakh following Azerbaijan’s September 19 military attack.

Mirzoyan called on the U.N. to deploy an interagency mission to Nagorno-Karabakh to monitor and assess the human rights, humanitarian, and security situation.

He appealed to the U.N. to implement the following:

• To create a United Nations-mandated Peacekeeping Force to keep stability and security in Nagorno- Karabakh.
• To demand exit of any Azerbaijani military and law-enforcement bodies from all civilian settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh NK to exclude panic, provocations and escalation, endangering civilian population until the results of the negotiations.
• To ensure the return of persons displaced in the course of the recent aggression, as well as persons and refugees displaced as a result of 2020 war, to their homes in the territory of Nagorno- Karabakh and adjacent regions under the monitoring and control of the UN relevant agencies, as it was foreseen in the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020.
• To condemn the resumption of hostilities and targeting of civilian settlements and infrastructure,
• To demand full compliance with obligations under the international humanitarian law, including those related to the protection of civilians, in particular women and children, and critical civilian infrastructure.
• To ensure unimpeded access of the UN agencies and other international organizations to Nagorno-Karabakh in line with the humanitarian principles.
• To ensure full cooperation of the parties in good faith with the International Committee of the Red Cross to address the consequences of the military actions, including the removal and identification of the bodies, search and rescue of personnel missing in action, release of POWs, safe and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance, in strict compliance with the international humanitarian law. 
• To demand the immediate restoration of freedom and security of movement of persons, vehicles and cargo, along the Lachin corridor, in line with the ICJ orders.
• To ensure a sustainable international mechanism of dialogue between representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh and official Baku to address the issues related to rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
• To exclude punitive action against Nagorno-Karabakh NK political and military representatives and personnel.