A young family from Rego Park is back together in the United States after a harrowing ordeal by a mom and her toddler in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh during a mounting humanitarian crisis in the Armenian-majority Republic of Artsakh. Congresswoman Grace Meng interceded on the family’s behalf after her constituent, Garegin Akopyan, reached out to her office for emergency assistance.
Akopyan’s wife, Lusine, and their 3-year-old son, Andranik, traveled to Armenia in December and took a trip to Nagorno-Karabakh to visit relatives and lay flowers at her father’s gravesite. While there, Lusine and her youngster found themselves trapped as a result of an ongoing blockade of the Lachin Corridor, a critical road that supplies the region, by Azerbaijan. Akopyan turned to Meng for assistance.
