The United Nations Security Council will convene a special session to discuss Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday, since Azerbaijan’s attack on Artsakh on Tuesday, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed.
The UN General Assembly is currently underway and Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan is attending the session. He has meet with international leaders to address the situation, among them U.S. Undersecretary for Eurasian Affairs Yuri Kim.
President Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday told Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan that France will initiate a special session of the Security Council to address Azerbaijan’s latest attack on Artsakh.
Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, called for an end to the hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and start a “sustainable and deep dialogue.”
Dujarric told Al Jazeera that Guterres will meet with the delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan, who are currently in New York for the 78th session of the UN General Assembly.
According to Dujarric, there is no doubt that sooner or later this issue will be raised.
