Washington, D.C. \u2014<\/b> Today, Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Representatives Gus M. Bilirakis (R-Fla.), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), and David G. Valadao (R-Calif.), released the following joint statement in the wake of Azerbaijan\u2019s unprovoked attacks on Artsakh earlier today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues has warned for months that Azerbaijan was implementing a genocidal campaign against the Armenian people of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) in broad daylight. The large-scale attack by Azerbaijani forces today further escalates that campaign, taking advantage of a people they have systematically starved over the last 10 months. It is still too early to tell the full breadth and scale of this attack, but initial reports indicate that Azerbaijan is using deadly force, including heavy shelling, against residential and civilian areas in Stepanakert. According to reports, the attacks have so far resulted in at least 138 injured individuals, including 29 civilians, and 25 fatalities, including one child,\u201d\u00a0said the Members.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPresident Aliyev orchestrated this deliberate attack to exile the Armenian population in Artsakh. The so-called \u2018humanitarian corridors\u2019 they reportedly opened for civilians to use to leave the area are only meant to further perpetuate their campaign of ethnic cleansing using violence, hunger, and fear to push these people out of their homeland. Armenians have called Nagorno-Karabakh home for thousands of years. The United States should use every diplomatic tool, including sanctions, to help guarantee their right to remain there. We call on the State Department and our international partners to take immediate action to halt any further aggressions by Azerbaijani forces and ensure their safety and security,\u201d\u00a0the Members continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, Representative Adam Schiff…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","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\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_.png",1200,1200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-300x300.png",250,250,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-768x768.png",640,640,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-1024x1024.png",400,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_.png",1200,1200,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_.png",1200,1200,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-1200x1020.png",841,715,true],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-936x897.png",522,500,true],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-1024x1024.png",1024,1024,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-720x380.png",540,285,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-675x450.png",375,250,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"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\/11\/1200px-Seal_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.svg_.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}