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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Wednesday held a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

They discussed the severe humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) caused by Azerbaijan's blocking of the Lachin Corridor, the sole road connecting Artsakh to Armenia and the outside world, the prime minister's office said in its readout of the phone call.

"The Prime Minister noted that by blocking the Lachin Corridor, Azerbaijan once again resorted to a provocative action and actually violated the obligation assumed by the trilateral declaration of November 9, 2020," it said.

"The U.S. Secretary of State emphasized the importance of the uninterrupted operation of the Lachin Corridor and expressed the U.S. readiness to continue contributing to the solution of this problem.

"The interlocutors exchanged ideas on the issues of normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, protection of the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, unblocking of regional infrastructures, and normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations," reads the statement.