I'm generally supportive of this, but my concern is that members called for a special meeting today, when we had already agreed to have two meetings on the subject of the Nagorno-Karabakh situation. Today we are spending some time doing that.
It would seem to me that this is an unusual request that came in from six members. I'm always happy to have them explain that. We had agreed that we would have a meeting and that our first meeting back after January 31 would be on this issue.
We had agreed to do two meetings on the general situation. I would like to move an amendment—because we have a lot of pressing work on our agenda, which we've already agreed to undertake as a committee—that we add one extra meeting to the original two meetings. We would have a total of three meetings, recognizing that we have already had one meeting.
I would prefer to use the words “the Lachin road” because the word “corridor” does not have any legal standing. I find that the motion is already laden with the idea that we know what is happening there. I'll let that go and simply move an amendment that instead of a total of three meetings, we add one meeting to our existing study of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, with a focus on the Lachin road.