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Key Democrat chafes at US response to Armenia-Azerbaijan crisis [Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)]
The Hill ^ | September 15, 2023 | Lydia McFarlane

Posted on 09/18/2023 8:29:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) expressed frustration Thursday with the Biden administration's lack of urgency in addressing what the United States has described as a "rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation" in Nagorno-Karabakh, a hotly disputed region at the center of rising tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Menendez, while chairing of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the crisis, said he was "amazed" by the responses from Yuri Kim, the acting assistant secretary for the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs...

The senator's frustration centered on the administration's application of Section 907 of the United States Freedom Support Act, which bans direct support to the Azerbaijani government. However, Kim listed various reasons that ban has been waived, mainly to bolster Azerbaijan's anti-terror efforts and secure its border with Iran.

Menendez argued that the U.S. was only helping the regime of Azerbaijan's authoritarian President Ilham Aliyev, whom the senator blamed for a blockade that has cut off Karabakh in apparent violation of a 2020 truce between Azerbaijan and Armenia...

Earlier this year, Azerbaijani troops began a blockade of the Lachin corridor, which has reportedly led to the starvation of indigenous Armenians in the semi-autonomous Nagorno-Karabakh...

When Menendez asked Kim why Aliyev refused to open to corridor despite numerous promises to do so, Kim responded, "We can have that conversation in a different setting, sir."

Menendez shook his head before saying, "What would be classified?"

"I'll give you an unclassified answer: He won't open the corridor because he is trying to subjugate these people by starvation or by the threat of starvation and subject them to his will," the senator continued.

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1 posted on 09/18/2023 8:29:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Maelstrom.

2 posted on 09/18/2023 8:30:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Can we grift more money there?


3 posted on 09/18/2023 8:30:58 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: SunkenCiv
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) expressed frustration Thursday with the Biden administration's lack of urgency in addressing what the United States has described as a "rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation" in Nagorno-Karabakh, a hotly disputed region at the center of rising tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Great, some more stuff that's none of our business on the other side of the planet that we can funnel US tax dollars into.
4 posted on 09/18/2023 8:45:09 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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The rest of the Nagorno-Karabakh keyword, sorted:

5 posted on 09/18/2023 8:50:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The senator is a felon.

Voters express their frustration with the US border crisis.


6 posted on 09/18/2023 8:51:10 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SunkenCiv
Armenia and Azerbaijan

Has the side of which we are supposed to support been released yet? I can find both on a map but likely wouldn't offer a bucket of warm spit for either.

7 posted on 09/18/2023 8:51:29 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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The rest of the Armenian Genocide keyword, sorted:

8 posted on 09/18/2023 8:57:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What crisis?

If they want to fight, let them.

It’s not our problem.


9 posted on 09/18/2023 8:58:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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10 posted on 09/18/2023 9:05:30 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: SunkenCiv; All

Forty-two minute summary of recent statements on the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRKc09YhG-Y


11 posted on 09/18/2023 9:33:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv; All

Menendez is concerned about the Armenian border, but not about the American border.


12 posted on 09/18/2023 10:35:27 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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