He pointed out that of international and foreign organizations only the International Committee of the Red Cross is still working in Karabakh, and “UN humanitarian agencies never received permission of Azerbaijanis and Armenians to access the enclave, even for the primary needs assessment mission.”
According to Ilyichev, “difficulties arise from the political impossibility to maintain an equidistant position with the parties, including the modalities of entry to and exit from the region, reporting, monitoring, and the legal basis for building humanitarian activities.”
“Given the lack of progress in establishing even international humanitarian assistance to Nagorno-Karabakh, the practical implementation of the idea of sending an international peacekeeping contingent, which, moreover, would need to be authorized by the UN Security Council, is hardly realistic,” Ilyichev concluded.
