{"id":1157,"date":"2020-07-17T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2020-07-18T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T20:27:47","slug":"menendez-booker-call-for-immediately-halt-of-u-s-military-aid-to-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/menendez-booker-call-for-immediately-halt-of-u-s-military-aid-to-azerbaijan\/","title":{"rendered":"Menendez, Booker Call For Immediately Halt of U.S. Military Aid to Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
WASHINGTON \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)<\/strong>, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and\u00a0Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.)<\/strong>\u00a0issued the following statement on the recent escalation in violence along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply concerned about the reports of violence along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. Azerbaijan, with Turkey’s support, has chosen a path of violence instead of the peaceful, negotiated process spearheaded by the OSCE Minsk Group. We urge a stop to the fighting and immediate resumption of peace talks.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBaku\u2019s recent actions have only exacerbated violence and hindered efforts to reach\u00a0<\/em>lasting stability and peaceful end to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,\u00a0<\/em>forcing us to once again raise serious questions about our current levels of military assistance to the Government of Azerbaijan. Providing nearly $120 million in security assistance to a regime that flouts a peace process co-chaired by the U.S. is absurd. We call on the Trump administration to immediately halt this assistance and fully respect Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In a June 3, 2020\u00a0letter<\/a>, Ranking Member Menendez requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) formally open a review of the provision of assistance to the Government of Azerbaijan due to Congress\u2019 limited understanding of its scope, nature, and impact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and\u00a0Senator Cory…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker-300x200.jpg",250,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",400,266,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",500,333,false],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",375,250,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg",45,30,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Menendez-Booker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}