State Department Welcomes Royce-Engel Karabakh Peace Initiatives

Royce and Engel have proposed concrete measures to de-escalate military aggression in Karabakh

Amid an Escalation of Azerbaijani Aggression, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Calls for Concrete Action by the Obama Administration

WASHINGTON”“The State Department has officially welcomed proposals by U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-NY) and more than 80 of their House colleagues to check Azerbaijan’s escalating aggression, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

The Department’s support for the Royce-Engel peace proposals comes during a year that has already seen 40 Armenians killed by the Azerbaijani military ”” 4 just last week. On Tuesday, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense, Zakir Hasanov, publicly pledged renewed anti-Armenian aggression, stating “we are going to inflict even more devastating attacks.”