Washington: A military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region was reported for which allocating of budget funds will be done by US Senators Bob Menendez and Rob Portman to address a humanitarian crisis in South Caucasus.

The Senators wrote, "The humanitarian situation in the south Caucasus is dire, and it will only grow worse as winter approaches. The fighting may have stopped, but the damage it caused will continue to cost lives without robust action by the international community." In a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, they asked for "robust funding in the final FY21 appropriations bill." They also said that the recent "Turkish-backed" conflict inflicted long-term infrastructural damage on the region and displaced more than half of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenian population. It also affected badly 90 percent of the region's women and children. In addition to requesting robust funding for rehabilitation services in Nagorno-Karabakh, Menendez and Portman also asked the Senate to appropriate specific funds for clearing mines and unexploded ordnance in the area.

After warring sides agreed to a ceasefire mediated by Moscow the armed conflict between Yerevan and Baku ended in November that envisioned the deployment of a Russian peacekeeping mission to Nagorno-Karabakh. The deal led to the transfer of all regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, seized by the Armenian forces during the 1988-1994 war, to Azerbaijan. 

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