Civilnet- Roughly half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has now fled to Armenia. In addition, nearly 250 seriously wounded people have been evacuated from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia.
- Azerbaijani forces detained Ruben Vardanyan at a checkpoint along the Lachin corridor as he tried to enter Armenia.
- The United States and a number of European countries said they will provide more than $25 million for the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
- Armen Grigoryan, the head of Armenia’s Security Council, and Hikmet Hajiyev, the Azerbaijani president’s chief foreign policy advisor, met in Brussels for the first talks between senior officials from Yerevan and Baku since Azerbaijan launched strikes across Nagorno-Karabakh last week.
- A State Department spokesperson told reporters Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pledged to refrain from any “further military action” in the region.
- France will open a consulate in Syunik, becoming the third country after Iran and Russia to establish or announce plans to establish a permanent diplomatic presence in Armenia’s strategically vital southernmost region.
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