Secretary of State Antony Blinkenhas said that the United States welcomes the shipment of critical humanitarian supplies through both the Lachin corridor and Aghdam road into Nagorno-Karabakh, an approach he said he discussed with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

"We encourage direct talks to increase the flow of humanitarian supplies," Blinken wrote on X.

Badly needed food and medicines were delivered by the ICRC to Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, September 18 along two roads simultaneously from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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.