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ANCA Rapid Responder Letters: Enforce Global Magnitsky Sanctions on Azerbaijani Leaders

Text of Rapid Responder Letter to President Trump

Dear President Trump:

I am writing to ask that the White House immediately enforce Global Magnitsky sanctions against senior Azerbaijani officials guilty of launching cluster bombs against Armenian civilians in the Artsakh Republic, a war crime documented by Amnesty International.

These sanctions should be directed at Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov, Chief of the General Staff Sadikov Najmeddin Huseynoglu, Deputy Minister of Defense (Army) Mustafayev Kerem Narimanoglu, and Deputy Minister of Defense (Air Force) Tairov Ramiz Firudinoglu. Each of these officials are directly responsible for launching an unprovoked war on Artsakh – backed by Turkey and foreign jihadists – that intentionally and deliberately targets civilians.

The White House – via the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) – should also enforce economic sanctions against Turkish President Recep Erdogan for arming Azerbaijan with prohibited weapons and recruiting known terrorists into combat against Armenian civilians.

Both Aliyev and Erdogan war criminals and should be treated as such by the U.S. Government.

Left unchecked, Turkey and Azerbaijan (with a combined population of 100 million) will complete the work of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic destruction of the world’s first Christian nation, a proud modern democracy of just three million people struggling to survive on the frontier of world freedom.

I look forward to hearing of your actions on this matter.


Text of Rapid Responder Letter to Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives

Dear Senator/Representative

I am writing to ask you to demand that the White House immediately enforce Global Magnitsky sanctions against senior Azerbaijani officials guilty of launching cluster bombs against Armenian civilians in the Artsakh Republic, a war crime documented by Amnesty International.

These sanctions should be directed at Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov, Chief of the General Staff Sadikov Najmeddin Huseynoglu, Deputy Minister of Defense (Army) Mustafayev Kerem Narimanoglu, and Deputy Minister of Defense (Air Force) Tairov Ramiz Firudinoglu. Each of these officials are directly responsible for launching an unprovoked war on Artsakh – backed by Turkey and foreign jihadists – that intentionally and deliberately targets civilians.

The White House – via the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) – should also enforce economic sanctions against Turkish President Recep Erdogan for arming Azerbaijan with prohibited weapons and recruiting known terrorists into combat against Armenian civilians.

Both Aliyev and Erdogan war criminals and should be treated as such by the U.S. Government.

Left unchecked, Turkey and Azerbaijan (with a combined population of 100 million) will complete the work of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic destruction of the world’s first Christian nation, a proud modern democracy of just three million people struggling to survive on the frontier of world freedom.

I look forward to hearing of your actions on this matter.

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