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One more congressman joins Working Group on Azerbaijan

05 February 2008 13:51 (UTC +04:00)

The letter envisages strategic importance of Azerbaijan, its cooperation with the US on the struggle against terrorism, Azerbaijanâ€™s role for exportation of energy recourses of Caspian Sea to world market, development of US- Azerbaijan interparliamentary relations and Working Groupâ€™s role for giving information to Congressmen about Azerbaijan and the region. Democratic Congressman Randy Kuhl from New-York announced that he joined Working Group on Azerbaijan. Number of members in Working Group reached to 31.
He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 and now represents the 29th Congressional District of New York. He serves on three House Committees in the 110th Congress and is a member of six subcommittees: On the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee he is on the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment. On the House Agriculture Committee is serves on the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture. On the Committee on Education and Labor he serves on the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness. He dropped his name from the list of co-authors of bill on Armenian genocide presented to the House of Representatives. /APA/