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ANCA to AIPAC: ditch Azerbaijan
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2013-03-09-anca-to-aipac-ditch-azerbaijan
Published: Saturday March 09, 2013
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), giving voice to the
Armenian American community's growing alarm over anti-Armenian tirades
by Azerbaijani leaders and diplomats, officially registered a protest
today with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
regarding remarks made by Azerbaijan's Ambassador to the United States
Elin Suleymanov, at the organization's recently concluded annual
conference.
According to news reports, Azerbaijani Ambassador Suleymanov, during a
breakout session at the AIPAC Policy conference titled "New Allies:
Israel and the Caucasus Region," threatened supporters of Israel not
to "fall under the influence of pro-Armenian lobby groups."
In the March 7th ANCA letter, Executive Director Aram Hamparian
explained that: "Strengthening the relationship between the United
States and Israel need not involve support for dictatorial regimes.
Nor should supporting Israel require providing a platform for those,
like Ambassador Suleymanov, who engage in the very sort of hateful,
conspiratorial rants that have, for far too long, been used to
demonize Israel and her supporters worldwide."
Hamparian specifically asked AIPAC to "reevaluate the moral and
practical dimensions of your organization's association with
Azerbaijan's war-mongering President, Ilham Aliyev, a dictator who,
echoing the venomous Holocaust-era rants of Adolf Hitler against Jews,
has announced openly that, "all the Armenians of the world" are his
enemies." He added that Aliyev, by saying that "Armenia as a country
is of no value... it is actually a colony, an outpost run from abroad,
a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands," was
"attacking Armenia's very right to exist in language chillingly
similar to those who seek to destroy Israel."
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2013-03-09-anca-to-aipac-ditch-azerbaijan
Published: Saturday March 09, 2013
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), giving voice to the
Armenian American community's growing alarm over anti-Armenian tirades
by Azerbaijani leaders and diplomats, officially registered a protest
today with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
regarding remarks made by Azerbaijan's Ambassador to the United States
Elin Suleymanov, at the organization's recently concluded annual
conference.
According to news reports, Azerbaijani Ambassador Suleymanov, during a
breakout session at the AIPAC Policy conference titled "New Allies:
Israel and the Caucasus Region," threatened supporters of Israel not
to "fall under the influence of pro-Armenian lobby groups."
In the March 7th ANCA letter, Executive Director Aram Hamparian
explained that: "Strengthening the relationship between the United
States and Israel need not involve support for dictatorial regimes.
Nor should supporting Israel require providing a platform for those,
like Ambassador Suleymanov, who engage in the very sort of hateful,
conspiratorial rants that have, for far too long, been used to
demonize Israel and her supporters worldwide."
Hamparian specifically asked AIPAC to "reevaluate the moral and
practical dimensions of your organization's association with
Azerbaijan's war-mongering President, Ilham Aliyev, a dictator who,
echoing the venomous Holocaust-era rants of Adolf Hitler against Jews,
has announced openly that, "all the Armenians of the world" are his
enemies." He added that Aliyev, by saying that "Armenia as a country
is of no value... it is actually a colony, an outpost run from abroad,
a territory artificially created on ancient Azerbaijani lands," was
"attacking Armenia's very right to exist in language chillingly
similar to those who seek to destroy Israel."