France is reportedly preparing to submit a resolution to the UN Security Council "on assistance to 120,000 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who are on the verge of starvation due to Azerbaijan’s blockade," Le Figaro reports.

The publication does not provide details, only emphasizing that the lives of 120,000 men, women and children are in the hands of the UN Security Council.

According to Le Figaro, since December 12, after the closure of the only route connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with the rest of the world, the region with an exclusively Armenian population has found itself in a difficult situation.

The publication notes that “in addition to almost daily shelling of villagers and border guards, Karabakh Armenians are dying, being deprived of medicine, food, fuel, as well as electricity, water and the Internet, which are regularly turned off by the Azerbaijanis who keep them in the blockade.”

Next week, according to Le Figaro, Paris and major regions of France will send a convoy of humanitarian aid to Armenia.

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.