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Azerbaijani representatives delivered speeches at Congressional hearings

26 March 2008 09:13 (UTC +04:00)

APA US Bureau reports that representatives of Azerbaijani Diaspora requested the Congress to render no aid to Nagorno Karabakh in 2009. Making a speech at the subcommittee hearings on budget estimates for fiscal year 2009, T. Azeri stated that Azerbaijan was a dynamically developing country. To her, censorship was lifted in 1993, more than 2000 Mass Media operate in the country and nearly 1400 NGOs have been registered to date. She said that the US-Azerbaijan energy security cooperation was of strategic importance and reminded that Condoleezza Rice and Elmar Mammadyarov had signed a MOU in energy field a year before and added that Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipelines made great contributions to this cooperation.
Another representative of the Diaspora Adil Bagirov also delivered a speech and noted that Armenia had received $225 million from the United States since 1992 for democratization and this figure is four times more in comparison with the aid rendered to Azerbaijan, the closest ally of the United States in the region. He shared his views on the events lately occurred in Armenia and emphasized that the United States should not support the state, which occupied the territories of neighboring country, committed genocide, carried on a policy of ethnic cleansing and even killed its citizens.
Further, Javid Huseynov made a speech and spoke of the economic advancement of Azerbaijan. He noted that Azerbaijan has sent its peacekeeping forces to Afghanistan and Iraq.
They requested to take all abovementioned into account, remain in force the aid to be rendered to Azerbaijan in 2009 and not to render the assistance to Armenia more than 24 million dollars.
Representatives of Azerbaijani community wished the Congress to render no aid to Nagorno Karabakh in 2009.