In February some Azerbaijani American community leaders ask public officials to sign Khojaly Remembrance Day proclamations. They are generally inaccurate and victimize those who have suffered persecution and genocide by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The mayor of Portland, Maine, agreed to a request made by the president of the Azerbaijani Society of Maine to issue a Remember Khojaly Day proclamation. Additionally, the Maine Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) cosponsored this matter. There may be similar instances across the U.S. and the globe.
Also, in February, Armenian American communities remember the victims of Azerbaijani pogroms in Sumgait and other massacres in Kirovabad, Maragha and Baku.