Suren Sargsyan: US plans to bypass Section 907 and provide military aid to Azerbaijan

Panorama, Armenia


Political scientist Suren Sargsyan believes the United States plans to bypass Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act and provide military aid to Azerbaijan this year.  

Sargsyan reminds that Section 907 has been law since 1992 and bans most assistance to Azerbaijan until it takes demonstrable steps to cease all blockades and other offensive uses of force against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. At the same the, the US President is authorized to bypass the legislation through the continued use of an exemption waiver every year in MArch-April since 2001.

"The issue is that Biden has promised to reconsider that aid yet we have not worked in that direction as we didn't in others," Sargsyan said.