U.S. House of Representatives

Azerbaijan Sanctions Review Act of 2025 (H.R.5369) – Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) are leading this bipartisan legislation directing the Trump-Vance Administration to review the applicability of Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act sanctions against Azerbaijani officials responsible for war crimes, human rights abuses, and the ongoing illegal detention of Armenian prisoners of war and civilian captives.

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ARMENIA Security Partnership Act (H.R.6840) –  Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) are leading bipartisan legislation that would prohibit the president from waiving Section 907 restrictions on U.S. aid to Azerbaijan unless the Aliyev regime takes concrete steps toward a lasting peace with Armenia.

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Armenian Genocide Education Act (H.R.2585) – Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV), joined by Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and David Valadao (R-CA) are leading this bipartisan initiative directing the Library of Congress to implement a nationwide education program about the genocide committed by the Ottoman Turkish Government from 1915 to 1923 against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians.

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Congressional Letters

Enforcing Section 907 (60 Cosigners) – Representatives Mike Lawler (R-NY), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Gabe Amo (D-RI) led the bipartisan Congressional letter – cosigned by 60 U.S. Representatives – calling on Secretary of State Rubio to fully enforce Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act – demanding an immediate end to U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan, citing Baku’s ethnic cleansing of Artsakh’s 120,000 indigenous Armenian Christian population, continued occupation of sovereign Armenian territory, and illegal detention and abuse of Armenian prisoners.
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Calling for Azerbaijan’s Release of Armenian Prisoners (25 Cosigners) – Congressional Armenian Caucus leaders Frank Pallone (D-NJ), David Valadao (R-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) led this bipartisan letter calling on Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz to secure the release of Armenian prisoners illegally held in Azerbaijan and strengthen U.S. policy safeguarding Armenia’s sovereignty and security as part of expanded engagement in the South Caucasus.
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Imposing Magnitsky Sanctions on Azerbaijani War Criminals (36 Cosigners) – Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) led a bipartisan Congressional letter cosigned by 36 U.S. Representatives calling on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on Azerbaijani officials responsible for grave human rights abuses against Armenians, including the illegal detention, abuse, and sham trials of Armenian prisoners of war and former Artsakh leaders.

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Ensuring the Safe Return of Armenians to Artsakh (87 Cosigners) – Congressional Armenian Caucus co-chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Brad Sherman (D-CA), and David Valadao (R-CA) led a bipartisan Congressional letter, cosigned by 87 U.S. Representatives from 24 U.S. States, calling for the collective and protected return” of forcibly displaced Armenians to their indigenous homeland of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), in line with international law and in support of just and lasting peace in the South Caucasus.

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U.S. Senate

Demanding Azerbaijan’s Release of Armenian Prisoners (27 Cosigners) – Twenty-seven U.S. Senators – led by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and supported by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on the Trump Administration to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all Armenian prisoners of war and political prisoners held by Azerbaijan. The letter calls on the Trump Administration to press for international monitors to access sham trials in Baku and impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on Azerbaijani officials responsible for gross human rights violations.
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