The US Azerbaijanis call upon legislators on peaceful resolution of conflicts in Caucasus

According to APA’s Washington DC correspondent, US Azerbaijani organizations stated that the House Resolution H252 unfairly accuses Turkish nation of carrying out a premeditated genocide against the Armenian population of Ottoman Empire during the World War I.
US Azerbaijanis bring the UN Convention on genocide as a source to judge whether that was a genocide or not. UN Convention describes genocide as carrying out acts intended "to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".
US Azerbaijanis note that the alleged intent of Ottoman Turkish government to eliminate Armenian population cannot be established due to non-deportation of Armenian communities of major Ottoman cities like Istanbul, Izmir and Aleppo. Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of Turks and Kurds, for whom no recognition was ever extended, also perished in Eastern Anatolia at the hands of Russian army and Armenian forces during the same period of time.
In its statement Diaspora also mentions that since 1993, Armenia forcibly occupies 20% of the territory of neighboring Azerbaijan and nearly 1 million Azeri Turks, displaced by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, are unable to return to their homes.
Azerbaijanis’ statement says the resolution also bring damage to the U.S. foreign policy in the volatile Middle East and serves to reward the counter productive and non-compromising position assumed by the Republic of Armenia against a key U.S. ally, Turkey.
Azerbaijani Diaspora thanks the 22 House Representatives who voted against H. Res. 252 in the Foreign Affairs Committee. “We call upon all U.S. legislators and foreign policy experts to help the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement by letting the two sides resolve their historical woes without interference, and instead focus their efforts on speedy and peaceful resolution of conflicts in the Caucasus region”, - the Diaspora said.

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