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Congressman Brad Sherman questions US Secretary of State John Kerry
about Armenian-Turkish and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations
ARMINFO
Friday, April 26, 18:08
Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) questioned US Secretary of State John
Kerry at a full House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Hay Dat
Office in Washington reported. The congressman voiced questions
related the case of the Azerbaijani murderer Ramil Safarov who killed
an Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe at the NATO foreign
language courses in Hungary on Feb 19 2004. Safarov was pardoned and
glorified by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Sherman,
particularly, asked what steps the Department of State takes to
influence Azerbaijan to revise its decision and jail Safarov.
The congressman asked if the Administration of the US President is
going to the condition military aid to Azerbaijan with change of the
aggressive rhetoric of Baku. Congressman Sherman spotlighted the
regular threats by Azerbaijan to hit the civil planes that will fly
from the Stepanakert airport. How Azerbaijan will be punished if it
hits those civil planes, Sherman asked. The next question was about
the Armenian-Turkish relations and the protocols signed in 2009 to
stop isolation of Armenia and establish economic and diplomatic
relations between Armenia and Turkey. Sherman asked if Turkey has
taken any serious steps to ratify those protocols. He asked what
measures the Department has taken to make Turkey stop isolation of
Armenia.
From: Baghdasarian
about Armenian-Turkish and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations
ARMINFO
Friday, April 26, 18:08
Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) questioned US Secretary of State John
Kerry at a full House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Hay Dat
Office in Washington reported. The congressman voiced questions
related the case of the Azerbaijani murderer Ramil Safarov who killed
an Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe at the NATO foreign
language courses in Hungary on Feb 19 2004. Safarov was pardoned and
glorified by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. Sherman,
particularly, asked what steps the Department of State takes to
influence Azerbaijan to revise its decision and jail Safarov.
The congressman asked if the Administration of the US President is
going to the condition military aid to Azerbaijan with change of the
aggressive rhetoric of Baku. Congressman Sherman spotlighted the
regular threats by Azerbaijan to hit the civil planes that will fly
from the Stepanakert airport. How Azerbaijan will be punished if it
hits those civil planes, Sherman asked. The next question was about
the Armenian-Turkish relations and the protocols signed in 2009 to
stop isolation of Armenia and establish economic and diplomatic
relations between Armenia and Turkey. Sherman asked if Turkey has
taken any serious steps to ratify those protocols. He asked what
measures the Department has taken to make Turkey stop isolation of
Armenia.
From: Baghdasarian