ARMENIA has called on the United Nations security council to hold an emergency meeting over the worsening humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.

In his letter to the council’s president, sent on Friday and released publicly on Saturday, Armenia’s UN ambassador Mher Margaryan said the disputed region inside Azerbaijan was “on the verge of a full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe.”

Azerbaijan has blockaded the only road leading from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh since December, severely restricting deliveries of food, medical supplies and other essentials to the region of about 120,000 people.