{"id":8880,"date":"2016-05-27T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:48:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:48:30","slug":"anca-presses-for-full-implementation-of-royce-engel-karabakh-peace-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=8880","title":{"rendered":"ANCA Presses for Full Implementation of Royce-Engel Karabakh Peace Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>National Chairman Discusses Path Forward with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IRVINE, CA \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ancagrassroots\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenian National Committee of America<\/a> (ANCA) today urged Congressional leaders to redouble their efforts with <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--> the Obama Administration to ensure the timely implementation of the Royce-Engel peace proposals in the aftermath Azerbaijan\u2019s deadly April 2nd attack on the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (Artsakh).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a shared dialogue with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), who, along with Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-NY), is the chief architect of the Karabakh peace recommendations, ANCA Chairman Raffi Hamparian discussed the Aliyev regime\u2019s devastating incursion against Artsakh \u2013 the worst since the ceasefire established some 22 years ago \u2013 and the ensuing Azerbaijani war crimes, including the brutal murder and mutilation of an elderly Armenian couple and the beheading of three Armenian soldiers. The ANCA has been joined by senior <a href=\"http:\/\/anca.org\/press-release\/rep-brad-sherman-urges-leahy-law-investigation-azerbaijani-war-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Affairs Committee member Brad Sherman (D-CA)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/anca.org\/press-release\/rep-loretta-sanchez-calls-leahy-law-investigation-azerbaijani-abuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed Services Committee member Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)<\/a> in calling for a \u201cLeahy Law\u201d investigation, which would zero-out U.S. military assistance to Azerbaijani units found to have committed war crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamparian noted the urgency of taking concrete steps toward implementation of these cease-fire strengthening measures, citing the death of Nagorno Karabakh Defense Forces Private Vahe Argam Yeghoyan just days earlier as a result of Azerbaijani cross border shelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cArmenian Americans across the U.S. appreciate Chairman Royce\u2019s leadership in advancing the Royce-Engel proposals \u2013 common sense measures to ensuring a path toward peace in the Caucasus,\u201d said ANCA Chairman Raffi Hamparian. \u201cThe key, of course, is in their implementation \u2013 and the sooner the better, if we are to avoid a repeat of the ravages of Azerbaijani aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Royce-Engel proposals, which have received the support of over 90 U.S. Representatives through two Congressional letters sent to the Obama Administration in <a href=\"https:\/\/anca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Royce_Engel_Karabakh_Peace.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November, 2015<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/anca.org\/assets\/graphics\/2016\/032416_Congressional_Letter_Obama.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March, 2016<\/a>, include three common-sense measures to secure Artsakh peace:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 An agreement from all sides not to deploy snipers, heavy arms, or new weaponry along the line of contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 The placement of OSCE-monitored, advanced gunfire-locator systems and sound-ranging equipment to determine the source of attacks along the line of contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 The deployment of additional OSCE observers along the line of contact to better monitor cease-fire violations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Armenia and Artsakh have long agreed to all three measures; Azerbaijan opposes their implementation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Key points of the Royce-Engel proposals were incorporated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2016\/05\/257278.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent agreement by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev<\/a> \u2013 brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and France State Secretary for European Affairs Harlem Desir \u2013 which called for the implementation of OSCE investigative measures and expanded authority of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson, as part of a broader commitment to a regional ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Photo: ANCA Chairman Raffi Hamparian and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) discuss the path toward implementation of the Royce \u2013 Engel Artsakh peace recommendations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Chairman Discusses Path Forward with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce IRVINE, CA \u2013 The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) today urged Congressional leaders to redouble their efforts with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anca"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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