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YEREVAN, August 26. /ARKA/. Congressional leaders, community activists, and coalition partners will gather on Capitol Hill on September 19 for a program dedicated to holding Azerbaijan accountable for its 2020-23 attacks and ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh, calling for the safe return of Armenians under a global mandate and international protection, the reported by Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)./pp
The event, which will start at 6:00 pm local time on September 19, marks the first anniversary of Azerbaijan's brutal September 19-20, 2023 military offensive against Artsakh, which culminated – after ten months of blockade, in the genocidal ethnic cleansing of over 120,000 Armenians from their historic homeland./pp “We are gathering from across America in Washington to hold Azerbaijan accountable – via a statutory prohibition on military aid and the enforcement of sanctions against Aliyev’s genocidal regime,” said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. “The United States can and must reverse this reversible genocide by leading a UN Security Council resolution establishing a mandate for the return of Artsakh’s indigenous Armenians under international protection.”/pp
The program will feature remarks from the U.S. Senators and Representatives, underscoring the critical importance of U.S. leadership in sanctioning Azerbaijan, providing aid to Artsakh genocide survivors, and advocating for the safe return of Armenians to Artsakh.nbsp;/p br br
