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US Congress Armenian caucus calls on Obama to suspend military aid and condemn Azerbaijan

Speaking on behalf of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, Co-Chairs Robert Dold and Frank Pallone on Thursday issued strong, bipartisan calls, asking President Obama to forcefully condemn Azerbaijan’s military offensive and urging top U.S. House appropriators to zero-out U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s armed forces, reported Asbarez Armenian daily newspaper of the US.

US Congress Armenian caucus calls on Obama to suspend military aid and condemn Azerbaijan

US Congress Armenian caucus calls on Obama to suspend military aid and condemn Azerbaijan

STEPANAKERT, APRIL 8, ARTSAKHPRESS: In their letter to the President, in addition to calling for a forthright condemnation of Baku’s belligerence, the two Co-Chairs asked that he “suspend U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan, provide emergency relief aid to Nagorno Karabakh, and send a State Department fact-finding mission to both evaluate the destruction inflicted by Azerbaijan’s aggression and assess the humanitarian relief and reconstruction needs of Nagorno Karabakh’s affected civilian population.”

They noted that, “Azerbaijan’s attacks represent a dramatic escalation in President Aliyev’s destructive pattern of aggression, constant threats of renewed war, ongoing incitement of anti-Armenian hatred, and the military targeting of Armenian civilians in both Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia. They also reflect his desire to act with international impunity – as so clearly demonstrated by his rejection of common-sense, cease-fire monitoring and other accountability-oriented initiatives – such as the urgently-needed Royce-Engel peace proposals that are supported by your Administration.”

“We are particularly troubled that President Aliyev chose to launch his country’s latest assault only hours after meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, both of whom called openly for a peaceful, non-violent resolution of status and security issues related to Nagorno Karabakh,” the letter also reads. “We call upon you to abandon the current, flawed U.S. policy of false-parity. In support of our American national interest in deterring renewed attacks and regional instability, we urge you to suspend all military aid to Azerbaijan, and, in keeping with American humanitarian values, we ask you to provide both emergency and longer-term relief aid to the civilian population of Nagorno Karabakh.”


     

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