{"id":3112,"date":"2023-06-14T04:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2023-06-17T00:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T07:37:53","slug":"senate-foreign-relations-committee-chairman-menendez-raises-concerns-about-nagorno-karabakh-at-full-committee-nominations-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/senate-foreign-relations-committee-chairman-menendez-raises-concerns-about-nagorno-karabakh-at-full-committee-nominations-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Menendez Raises Concerns About Nagorno-Karabakh at Full Committee Nominations Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC\u00a0\u2013 This week,\u00a0U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, participated in a full Committee hearing \u2013 chaired by U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen \u2013 to consider the nominations of The Honorable Nisha Desai to be Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation; Mr. Edgard D. Kagan to be Ambassador to Malaysia; Mr. Mark W. Libby to be Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan; Mr. Joel Ehrendreich to be Ambassador to the Republic of Palau; and The Honorable Cynthia Kierscht to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLD1DoepVEg?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tLD1DoepVEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Above to Watch the Entirety Of Chairman Menendez\u2019s Remarks And Questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Chairman Menendez voiced his concerns over the rights and security for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh in the ongoing peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply concerned by the ongoing blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, which severely limits the basic goods and aid entering the region,\u201d\u00a0said Chairman Menendez to Mr. Libby. \u201cAzerbaijan\u2019s more than 180 day blockade has threatened famine for the local Armenian population, causing rationing, resulting in pharmacies running out of medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are dying. I urge you to engage with the State Department in a more forceful, forthright response,\u201d\u00a0continued Chairman Menendez to Mr. Libby. \u201cYou\u2019re going \u2013 if confirmed \u2013 to a challenging post. But the fact that it\u2019s challenging doesn\u2019t mean that the United States should not be speaking out for the basic human rights and principles that we observe globally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC\u00a0\u2013 This week,\u00a0U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","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\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",700,390,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez-250x139.png",250,139,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",640,357,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez-400x223.png",400,223,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",700,390,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",700,390,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",700,390,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",700,390,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png",700,390,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez-540x340.png",540,340,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez-400x250.png",400,250,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Menendez.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}