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LOUISIANA SENATE CONDEMNS ANTI-ARMENIAN ATROCITIES IN AZERBAIJAN
20:45 29.05.2014
The Louisiana State Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, yesterday,
condemning Azerbaijani pogroms against its Armenian citizens and
called on the U.S. government to press Baku to bring the perpetrators
to justice, reported the Armenian National Committee of America -
Eastern Region (ANCA-ER).
The measure was introduced by Senator Edwin Murray, who just last
year spearheaded State Senate recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic's independence and urged US support the self-determination
and democratic independence of this developing democratic state.
This year's resolution, Senate Resolution 166, expresses "sympathy
in support of the families of victims of massacres and atrocities
perpetrated against the Armenian people in Azerbaijan." The measure
goes on to call on the "President of the United States and the Congress
exert all available influence on the government of Azerbaijan to
cease the falsification of the historical facts and bring those in
Azerbaijan who are responsible for the Armenian massacres."
Vazken Kaltakdjian, Louisiana Chairman of the Armenian Council of
America, worked closely with Senator Murray, Secretary of the Senate
Glenn Koepp, Attorney John Seago and the broader Louisiana Armenian
American community in moving this issue forward.
The U.S. has served as safe haven to tens of thousands of
Armenian-Americans who are refugees of pogroms against Armenians
in Sumgait (1988), Kirovabad (1988), and Baku (1990), and the
ethnic-cleansing of the Armenian population of Azerbaijan. These
pogroms set the stage for two decades of aggression by Azerbaijan,
during which it launched and lost a war against Nagorno Karabakh, and
later used its oil wealth to buy a massive military arsenal that its
leaders, to this day, vow to use to renew their attempts to conquer
a Christian people that have lived on these lands for thousands of
years and, after great challenges, has flourished in freedom from
Soviet oppression for more than 20 years.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/05/29/louisiana-senate-condemns-anti-armenian-atrocities-in-azerbaijan/
20:45 29.05.2014
The Louisiana State Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, yesterday,
condemning Azerbaijani pogroms against its Armenian citizens and
called on the U.S. government to press Baku to bring the perpetrators
to justice, reported the Armenian National Committee of America -
Eastern Region (ANCA-ER).
The measure was introduced by Senator Edwin Murray, who just last
year spearheaded State Senate recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic's independence and urged US support the self-determination
and democratic independence of this developing democratic state.
This year's resolution, Senate Resolution 166, expresses "sympathy
in support of the families of victims of massacres and atrocities
perpetrated against the Armenian people in Azerbaijan." The measure
goes on to call on the "President of the United States and the Congress
exert all available influence on the government of Azerbaijan to
cease the falsification of the historical facts and bring those in
Azerbaijan who are responsible for the Armenian massacres."
Vazken Kaltakdjian, Louisiana Chairman of the Armenian Council of
America, worked closely with Senator Murray, Secretary of the Senate
Glenn Koepp, Attorney John Seago and the broader Louisiana Armenian
American community in moving this issue forward.
The U.S. has served as safe haven to tens of thousands of
Armenian-Americans who are refugees of pogroms against Armenians
in Sumgait (1988), Kirovabad (1988), and Baku (1990), and the
ethnic-cleansing of the Armenian population of Azerbaijan. These
pogroms set the stage for two decades of aggression by Azerbaijan,
during which it launched and lost a war against Nagorno Karabakh, and
later used its oil wealth to buy a massive military arsenal that its
leaders, to this day, vow to use to renew their attempts to conquer
a Christian people that have lived on these lands for thousands of
years and, after great challenges, has flourished in freedom from
Soviet oppression for more than 20 years.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/05/29/louisiana-senate-condemns-anti-armenian-atrocities-in-azerbaijan/