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Dear Representative:
I write to you – amid growing Azerbaijani and Turkish threats against the Armenian homeland – to ask you to support five priorities of urgent concern to Armenian Americans and our coalition partners and allies in cities, towns, and communities across America:
1) Support FY23 State-Foreign Operations and FY23 National Defense Authorization provisions prohibiting U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan. My U.S. tax dollars should not subsidize the army of an oil-rich dictatorship ethnically cleansing an indigenous Christian Armenian population from its ancient homeland.
2) Support FY23 State-Foreign Operations appropriations of at least $50,000,000 for Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and $100,000,000 to Armenia. This aid is urgently needed to help the 100,000+ Armenians driven from their indigenous Artsakh homeland.
3) Cosponsor and work for the timely passage of H.Res.240, calling for Azerbaijan’s immediate release of illegally held Armenian prisoners of war.
4) Cosponsor and work for the timely passage of the bipartisan Armenian Genocide Education Act, H.R.7555, a measure to promote teaching the lessons of this crime against humanity.
5) Ask President Biden to enforce Section 907 restrictions on U.S. aid to Azerbaijan, in light of Azerbaijan’s aggression and the recent General Accountability Office report documenting multiple violations of the waiver provision of this law.
As you know, the $164,000,000 in U.S. military aid that the current and past Administrations sent to Azerbaijan (as documented by the GAO) materially strengthened and morally emboldened its leaders to attack Artsakh. Today, in the wake of Azerbaijan’s 2020 ethnic cleansing of 100,000+ indigenous Armenians from Artsakh -amid Azerbaijan’s ongoing invasion and occupation of Armenian territory – not a single U.S. tax dollar should be sent to Aliyev’s armed forces.
In closing, I want to stress that sending U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan, a major violator of human rights, materially undermines our nation’s abiding commitment to human rights as a core pillar of our foreign policy. Abetting Baku, one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, weakens America’s standing in the world.
Thank you for your attention to these concerns. I look forward to learning about your support for each of my requests.
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Dear Senator:
I write to you – amid growing Azerbaijani and Turkish threats against the Armenian homeland – to ask you to support three priorities of urgent concern to Armenian Americans and our coalition partners and allies in cities, towns, and communities across America:
1) Support FY23 State-Foreign Operations and FY23 National Defense Authorization provisions prohibiting U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan. My U.S. tax dollars should not subsidize the army of an oil-rich dictatorship ethnically cleansing an indigenous Christian Armenian population from its ancient homeland.
2) Support FY23 State-Foreign Operations appropriations of at least $50,000,000 for Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and $100,000,000 to Armenia. This aid is urgently needed to help the 100,000+ Armenians driven from their indigenous Artsakh homeland.
3) Ask President Biden to enforce Section 907 restrictions on U.S. aid to Azerbaijan, in light of Azerbaijan’s aggression and the recent General Accountability Office report documenting multiple violations of the waiver provision of this law.
As you know, the $164,000,000 in U.S. military aid that the current and past Administrations sent to Azerbaijan (as documented by the GAO) materially strengthened and morally emboldened its leaders to attack Artsakh. Today, in the wake of Azerbaijan’s 2020 ethnic cleansing of 100,000+ indigenous Armenians from Artsakh -amid Azerbaijan’s ongoing invasion and occupation of Armenian territory – not a single U.S. tax dollar should be sent to Aliyev’s armed forces.
In closing, I want to stress that sending U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan, a major violator of human rights, materially undermines our nation’s abiding commitment to human rights as a core pillar of our foreign policy. Abetting Baku, one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, weakens America’s standing in the world.
Thank you for your attention to these concerns. I look forward to learning of your support for each of my requests.