{"id":3200,"date":"2023-09-27T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2023-11-05T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T19:31:16","slug":"bi-partisan-senators-issue-statement-on-azerbaijan-aggression-towards-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/bi-partisan-senators-issue-statement-on-azerbaijan-aggression-towards-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi-Partisan Senators Issue Statement on Azerbaijan Aggression Towards Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Gary Peters (D-MI), John Kennedy (R-LA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) released the following joint statement calling on the Biden administration to take urgent steps to deter any Azerbaijani military action against Armenia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in Nagorno-Karabakh is deeply troubling\u2014the ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh, a centuries-old indigenous population, are being forced to flee their ancestral homeland because of the violence directed at them by the Azerbaijani government,\u201d\u00a0said the senators.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThis is the definition of ethnic cleansing and, disturbingly, there are signs that the military of Azerbaijan may launch future attacks. While we appreciate the Biden Administration\u2019s efforts to address the emerging humanitarian crisis, these efforts have so far failed to persuade President Aliyev to change course. Preventing further catastrophe tomorrow requires a strong response today without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge the Administration to coordinate with the European Union and make it clear to the Aliyev regime that any further military action is completely unacceptable and will be met with consequences. It\u2019s critical the U.S.\u2014alongside our European partners\u2014 dispatches additional humanitarian aid, enlists international monitors in Nagorno-Karabakh in addition to both sides of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border and reassures the Armenian population of our unwavering support. It\u2019s time we hold Azerbaijan accountable for its unacceptable ethnic cleansing and clear pattern of aggression,\u201d\u00a0continued the senators.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee expressed profound concern about Azerbaijan\u2019s cruel blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh and expressed growing fears that it might engage in further military aggression, which has now occurred in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Gary Peters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate-300x189.jpg",250,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",400,252,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"covernews-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"covernews-slider-center":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",610,384,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate-610x380.jpg",540,336,true],"covernews-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg",397,250,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"ArmenianCouncil","author_link":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/author\/armeniancouncil\/"},"category_info":"Legislation<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/US-Senate.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.armeniancouncil.org\/ACA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}