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ANCA issues nationwide call to action – anca.org/prisoners – in support of bipartisan measure
WASHINGTON The Armenian National Committee of America on Friday welcomed new legislation to be introduced by Congressional Armenian Caucus leaders calling on Azerbaijan to immediately release more than 200 Armenian prisoners of war and captured civilians, illegally kept hostage over 100 days after the November 9 ceasefire statement between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia.
This bipartisan U.S. House resolution, spearheaded by Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Jackie Speier (D-CA), David Valadao (R-CA), and Frank Pallone Jr.(D-NJ), cites findings that Azerbaijani military forces have mistreated ethnic Armenian prisoners of war and subjected them to “physical abuse and humiliation,” including beheadings, summary executions, and the desecration of human remains.
ANCA Thanks Pro-Armenian Community Advocates for Demanding Concrete U.S. Action
WASHINGTON The support of more than 100 U.S. Representatives on a bi-partisan letter calling on the Biden Administration to pursue pro-Armenian policy priorities underscores the depth and breadth of Congressional commitment to the security of Armenia and Artsakh, Armenian Caucus leaders told the Armenian National Committee of America.
“I deeply appreciate the overwhelming bipartisan support we received for this letter,” Armenian Caucus founding Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ). “It shows how important these issues are to the US Congress, especially in the aftermath of the unprovoked Azerbaijani and Turkish attacks on Artsakh last fall. The US can and must do more to help the thousands of displaced families from Artsakh that fled to Armenia because of the war and to pressure the Azerbaijani government to release the dozens of prisoners of war it continues to hold. All of this has caused a great deal o
In a strongly-worded op-ed published on Monday in the San Francisco Chronicle, representatives Jackie Speier and Adam Schiff urged President Biden to end America’s “silence on Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s regional aggression.”