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Armenia reiterates its call to the international community to send an international fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and the Lachin Corridor, which has been blocked by Azerbaijan for nearly three weeks, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

"The ongoing blockade of the Lachin Corridor makes the deployment of an international fact-finding mission to Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin Corridor ever more important," he said, calling for persistent efforts to resolve the issue.

Pashinyan praised the international community’s clear response to Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic cleansing in Artsakh, at the same time calling for “more substantive steps” to unblock the Lachin Corridor.

“We expect more substantive steps from the international community, including from Russia as a permanent UN Security Council member, whose peacekeepers are deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh and who is obliged to maintain control over the Lachin Corridor under the 9 November 2020 tripartite statement,” he stated.