California Democratic Party passes resolution calling for release of Armenian POWs
Calls for Divesting from, and Condemning, and Sanctioning Turkey and Azerbaijan As Part of its 2021 Top 13 Priorities
LOS ANGELES The California Democratic Party on Sunday adopted, as part of its top 13 priorities coming out of its 2021 state convention, a resolution condemning Turkey and Azerbaijan for the war crimes they committed over the course of 44 days and after their attack on the Republic of Artsakh and Armenia, beginning on September 27, 2020.
The resolution, introduced by LACDP Elected Member and DSCC Member Elen Asatryan, also urges Congress and the Biden Administration to sanction Turkey and Azerbaijan and demand that Azerbaijani authorities immediately release all Armenian Prisoners of War and captured civilians. Furthermore, it also calls on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to divest all public employee retirement funds
Calls for Divesting from, Condemning, and Sanctioning Turkey and Azerbaijan.
LOS ANGELES LACDP Elected Member and DSCC Member Elen Asatryan has introduced a resolution, which will be considered at the California Democratic Convention taking place from April 29 through May 2, condemning Turkey and Azerbaijan for the war crimes they committed over the course of 44 days after their attack on the Republic of Artsakh and Armenia, which began on September 27, 2020.
The resolution also urges Congress and the Biden Administration to sanction Turkey and Azerbaijan and demand that Azerbaijani authorities immediately release all Armenian POWS and captured civilians. Furthermore, it also calls on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to take socially responsible steps and divest all public employee retirement funds from investment vehicles issued by Turkey and Azerbaijan until Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide of 1915 – 1923, a
over the president to get him to change his mind. republicans are talking about sanctioning turkey. which frankly is a get out of rail free card for republicans who right now has to tell the president to change his mind and take a tougher line with the turks. only the president of the united states can save the kurds. no congressional sanctions bill can do that and that is wr the focus needs to be and trump has to listen to republicans because they re protecting him from his list of unethical behaviors in ukraine protecting him from the impeachment inquiry. they have huge leverage and should use it. thank you for your time. thanks. president trump has no idea who he is but a look at the private instagram page for one of rudy giuliani s recently indicted associates tells a quite different story. stay with us.
investigator and along with our colleagues has been doing great reporting and i want to talk about these two foreign policy issues that it appears giuliani was involved with. one of them pertains to a turkish man who s being prosecuted by the southern district of new york who he minute tans was his attorney. yes, this was extremely strange because even in 2017 when there were so many things going on in the early days of the trump administration in the southern district of new york federal prosecutors had a pretty interesting case involving a turkish gold trader who was accused of vast money laundering, bribery, turkish corruption scandal, an effort to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran. rudy giuliani and a cocounsel flew to turkey to meet with turkish president erdogan to discuss this case of a gold trader. erdogan desperately wanted this
case dismissed and wanted this traitor released. we would later learn at least one reason erdogan would want that to happen. the trader had politically damaging information about the turkish president. anyway, rudy giuliani was essentially pushing the president and others to help release this guy as part of a diplomatic agreement. prosecutors in new york were very suspicious about who exactly rudy giuliani was representing. was he representing the gold trader as he alleged in federal court, or was the fact he was pushing something to the top of erdogan s priority list really advocating for the leader of turkey? we should note that the reporting indicates there were possible multiple meetings where the president who was inviting rudy giuliani directly to argue for and lobby tillerson and others to intervene in the