'Armenian lobbying groups mislead US public opinion '

The US Congress`s “The Hill” newspaper published an article by co-founder of the US Azeris Network Adil Bagirov entitled “Armenian lobbying groups mislead US public opinion”.

The article says: “For decades, Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and other Armenian lobby groups have been misleading the American public opinion and officials, especially in Congress, with rampant and extreme anti-Azerbaijanism. Instead of advocating peace and economic development, ANCA and the Armenian lobby have been advocating historical revisionism, economic sanctions on the victims (Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons), irredentism (aid to the Armenia-occupied region of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, which is ethnically cleansed of all Azerbaijanis) and a multitude of other destructive, but ultimately unsuccessful, actions.

In 20 years of independence, Armenia got, thanks to the Armenian lobby, nearly $3 billion in U.S. aid, while Azerbaijan — a country almost three times its size and population, and with nearly 1 million refugees and internally displaced persons due to Armenian occupation of NK — got less than $800 million. Yet the human-rights situation in Armenia is much worse. Strangely, ANCA and Aram Hamparian are deaf and silent about Armenia having the worst human-rights record in the former USSR”.


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