AZERBAIJANI DIASPORA REPRESENTATIVES MEET CONGRESS MEMBERS
news.az
Feb 8 2010
Azerbaijan
Leaders of the US Azerbaijani Diaspora have taken part in the meeting
with a group of senators from New York.
During the meeting they discussed issues concerning Azerbaijan.
According to sources in USAN, the annual meeting with the Senate
members and House of Representatives in the format of a joint morning
was attended by the leaders of USAN, other organizations of the
Azerbaijani, Jewish and Turkish diaspora. It is the third time that the
USAN representatives are invited for such a meeting by its organizer –
the Council of communities for the New York Jewish community.
During the meeting the Congress members informed about the development
of strategic cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States,
friendly ties between Baku and Israel. It was noted that Azerbaijan
is among one of the few countries of the world where there is no
antisemitism.
Moreover, during the meeting the sides discussed issues of
international energy security, as well as problems of occupation of
Nagorno Karabakh and other regions of Azerbaijan from the Armenian
side.