Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, has visited the entrance of the Lachin Corridor in the village of Kornidzor in Armenia’s Syunik Province to see first-hand the situation around the corridor and brief the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.

An Armenian humanitarian aid convoy, as well as emergency supplies sent by French regions for Nagorno-Karabakh have been stranded at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor for nearly a month because Azerbaijan refuses to allow passage amid its ongoing illegal blockade of the Lachin Corridor, which has resulted in a humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Ambassador Kasprzyk told reporters that he’s visiting the entrance of the Lachin Corridor at the instruction of Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE Bujar Osmani.

“A press release was issued about this. I’m instructed to visit the adjacent regions of the Lachin Corridor, get acquainted with the situation and report to him. I’ve had many meetings yesterday, and today as you can see I am here, I will return to report on the situation,” Kasprzyk said, according to Armenpress.

Kasprzyk met with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on August 22.

Since December 12, 2022, the sole road connecting Nagorno Karabakh to Armenia - the Lachin Corridor - has been blocked by Azerbaijan. Baku tightened the blockade on June 15, 2023, banning emergency relief supplies that were carried out by Russian peacekeepers and the International Committee of the Red Cross through the sole road connecting Karabakh to Armenia and the outside world. The move aggravated the shortages of food, medicine and other essential items experienced by the region’s population. On August 15, Karabakh Human Rights Defender’s office reported the first case of death from starvation.