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A Capitol Hill celebration of Nagorno Karabakh’s commitment to freedom and democracy – capping the two day Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Fly-In for #NKPeace – featured a public call by Representative Ed Royce, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, for a special briefing with Ambassador James Warlick, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Co-Chair of the US.
The special briefing comes as a follow up to the October 26th Congressional letter addressed to Ambassador Warlick, initiated by Chairman Royce and Ranking Democrat Eliot Engel (D-NY) and cosigned by over 80 House colleagues, outlining three concrete steps to address escalating Karabakh violence, including the removal of snipers from the border, an increase in OSCE monitors and deployment of a gunfire direction finders.
“Why are the snipers not pulled back? […] Why have we not deployed those special [gun fire] direction finders?” asked Chairman Royce, citing reports of unprecedented Azerbaijani tank fired shelling and high-powered rifle fire.
Pro-Artsakh advocates from across the US converged in Washington DC Tuesday as part of the “ANCA Fly-In for #NKPeace” initiative – a two-day mission to share a message of peace and democracy with US Senators and Representatives, culminating in Wednesday’s Capitol Hill observance.