US Officials Visit Armenia as Thousands Flee Karabakh Region
- USAID’s Power, State Department’s Kim arrive in Yerevan
- Armenia said nearly 5,000 crossed border from Azerbaijan
USAID Administrator Samantha Power lands in in Yerevan, Armenia.
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Senior US officials arrived in Armenia amid growing fears of an exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s military operation to take control of the region that’s at the center of a decades-long conflict.
USAID Administrator Samantha Power and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Yuri Kim were in the capital Yerevan to “affirm US support for Armenia’s sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and democracy and to address humanitarian needs stemming from the recent violence in Nagorno-Karabakh,” the US embassy said in a Facebook post Monday.