Challenges Reckless U.S. Policy of Forcing Democratic Artsakh under Genocidal Azerbaijan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian today challenged U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvien\u2019s recent remarks recklessly supporting the forced subordination of democratic Artsakh to dictatorial Azerbaijan \u2013 a certain \u201cdeath sentence\u201d for more than 120,000 indigenous Christian Armenians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamparian\u2019s full statement follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ambassador Kvien\u2019s statement was not accidental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was, in fact, a calculated move \u2013 part of a broader Biden-Harris Administration diplomatic effort to force democratic Artsakh under genocidal Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President is pursuing this reckless approach well aware that any settlement along these lines represents a certain death sentence for the more than 120,000 indigenous Christian Armenians of Artsakh. This inescapable truth explains why he and his team are striving so mightily \u2013 for both domestic and diplomatic reasons \u2013 to wash their hands of responsibility for backing Baku\u2019s openly announced ethnic cleansing of Artsakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such moral cowardice is unworthy of a country with America\u2019s claim to moral standing, global leadership, and military superiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States is under both moral and international legal obligations to proactively prevent and remedy ethnic cleansing. Azerbaijan\u2019s own words and actions (blockades, attacks, blackouts, hate speech, outright threats, etc.) are more than ample evidence that the Armenians of Artsakh and the border regions of Armenia face genocidal danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Administration\u2019s failure to take decisive preventive and preemptive action to protect Artsakh makes the United States complicit in Azerbaijan\u2019s ethnic cleansing of Armenians. Even worse, the Administration emboldens Azerbaijani aggression by continually flashing green lights to the Aliyev regime – continuing U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijan, denying U.S. humanitarian aid to Artsakh, and repeatedly failing to hold Azerbaijan accountable for its war crimes and rights abuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is time for the Biden-Harris Administration to meet America\u2019s moral and legal obligations to prevent Azerbaijani genocide against Artsakh:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) The U.S. should set a hard deadline for Baku to lift its blockade and cease all acts of aggression against Artsakh and Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) The U.S. should impose Global Magnitsky and other sanctions on senior Azerbaijani officials for failing to meet this deadline, fully enforce Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, and block all direct and third-party sales or transfers of U.S. weapons or defense articles to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) The U.S. should immediately undertake concrete actions to prevent genocide in Artsakh by leading international effort for the recognition of Artsakh’s status as self-governing, requiring 1) United Nations security guarantees, 2) a sustained international peacekeeping presence, 3) robust U.S. and international humanitarian and developmental assistance, 4) secure transportation, commerce, and energy links to Armenia, 5) a strategic buffer zone, and 6) food, water and energy security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Challenges Reckless U.S. Policy of Forcing Democratic Artsakh under Genocidal Azerbaijan Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian today challenged U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvien\u2019s recent remarks recklessly supporting the forced subordination of democratic Artsakh to dictatorial Azerbaijan \u2013 a certain \u201cdeath sentence\u201d for more than 120,000 indigenous Christian Armenians. Hamparian\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[133,126,382,480],"class_list":["post-21289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-international","tag-anca","tag-382","tag-480"],"yoast_head":"\n