I am pleased that the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill reaffirms our commitment to Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act. By doing so. this Congress reaffirms our commitment to the peaceful resolution of international conflicts and to the Armenian people themselves. The Azeri blockade of Armenia and NagornoKarabakh is a direct result of the dispute between the two countries over the status of NagornoKarabakh. the longestrunning ethnic conflict in the former USSR. The human cost to date has been 35.000 lives and 1.4 million refugees. The Azeri blockade has been particularly brutal for Armenia which relies on its ties to the outside world for survival. It is a landlocked country where only 17 percent of the land is arable.
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