US announces plans to deploy Disaster Response Team in South Caucasus

On Thursday, the U.S. will announce the deployment of a
Disaster Response Team in the South Caucasus amid the crisis in Nagorno
Karabakh, Reuters reports, quoting Head of the United States Agency for
International Development Samantha Power.

“The United States on Thursday will announce it has deployed
a Disaster Assistance Response Team in the South Caucasus region to coordinate
the U.S. humanitarian response to the crisis after Azerbaijan took back control
of Nagorno-Karabakh last week,” Reuters writes.

As noted, the team will assess the situation, identify
priority needs to scale up assistance, and work with partners to provide
urgently needed aid.