Armenian Exodus Passes 50,000 as US Presses Azerbaijan on Safety
- US, EU seek monitoring to reassure Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians
- President Aliyev tells Blinken UN officials can visit Karabakh
Ethnic Armenians wait to be evacuated. More than 50,000 people have fled from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia as of 3 p.m. Wednesday.
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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev offered to let the United Nations into Nagorno-Karabakh as the US pressed him over security for Armenians in the region to stem an exodus that’s approaching half of the declared population.
More than 50,000 people have fled from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, the government in Yerevan said, up from 28,000 at the end of the previous day. Local officials have said 120,000 Armenians lived there before Azerbaijan carried out last week’s military offensive to take full control of the area.