At a joint meeting on June 30, Azerbaijan Parliament’s committee on international relations and inter-parliamentary ties and the committee on economic policy adopted a final version of the appeal to the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. The appeal contains concerns that on June 17, the House of Representatives subcommittee made a decision, which was presented to the consideration by the highest instance.

“The decision, which envisages providing $10 million assistance for the illegal Nagorno-Karabakh regime and imposes conditions for U.S. President’s authority to annually stop the 907th amendment to the Freedom Support Act, can be assessed as a support for separatism,” the appeal says.

The committees of Azerbaijan Parliament considers that the decision on such aid to the separatist regime is contrary to the whole essence of the activities of the United States as one of the mediators of the OSCE Minsk Group on Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and undermines their objectivity and impartiality.

“We bring to your attention that the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, occupied by Armenia, does not consist only of the Armenians. As a result of ethnic cleansing, 65,000 Azeri people, who were forced to leave their native land, are now living in difficult conditions and without any humanitarian assistance from the United States. The assistance provided to the separatist regime of Nagorno-Karabakh, as unilateral steps with regards to the occupied Azerbaijani lands, would prevent establishment of an atmosphere of mutual trust between the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno-Karabakh,” the appeal of committees of Parliament says.

The appeal stated firmly that any humanitarian assistance that the United States can provide to Nagorno-Karabakh must be coordinated with the Government of Azerbaijan, and the United States should give priority to the activities highlighting the fact that Nagorno-Karabakh is a territory of Azerbaijan. If to consider that there are plans to provide humanitarian assistance through the United States government agencies, it would be correct to deliver the aid through appropriate agencies, functioning in Azerbaijan. This will meet the humanitarian concerns of the United States and would reaffirm the recognition of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan by the United States.

“We hope that the concern expressed in our letter will be accepted with understanding,” says the appeal to the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. The appeal was addressed to the Chairman of the Senate of the U.S. Congress, Robert Byrd, and Chairman of the House of Representatives of U.S. Congress Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress’s Group for relations with Azerbaijan.

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