Speaker Pelosi strongly condemns 'illegal and deadly attacks by Azerbaijan' during visit to Armenia

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks successful Armenia connected Sunday to explicit enactment for the federation successful the aftermath of deadly clashes with neighboring Azerbaijan.

In a property conference, Pelosi powerfully condemned "illegal and deadly attacks by Azerbaijan" and added that the unit "threatens prospects for a much-needed bid agreement." She said the U.S. is watching the concern intimately and continues to enactment a negotiated settlement.

Fighting betwixt Armenia and Azerbaijan broke retired this week arsenic portion of a decades-long standoff implicit the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The clash marks the biggest escalation of the struggle since 2020, erstwhile the 2 nations engaged successful a warfare implicit the territory that near thousands dead. Each state blames the different for the renewed conflict, and a cease-fire took effect connected Wednesday.

Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Pelosi's connection "deeply regrettable" and "unfair," writing successful a release Sunday that it is "a superior stroke to efforts to normalize relations betwixt Armenia and Azerbaijan."

Pelosi's bureau announced that she would pb a legislature delegation to Armenia connected Saturday successful an effort to item the U.S.'s committedness to Armenia's security, antiauthoritarian governance and economical prosperity. Pelosi is the highest-ranking U.S. authoritative to sojourn Armenia since it achieved independency successful 1991, according to the release.

Last year, President Joe Biden officially recognized the sidesplitting of 1.5 cardinal Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces successful the aboriginal 20th period arsenic genocide. Biden's historical declaration is simply a large interruption from past U.S. administrations, which avoided calling the atrocities genocide owed to concerns implicit alienating Turkey.

Pelosi placed a wreath at Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial during her visit, writing connected Twitter: "Congress is committed to ever honoring our corporate work to uphold the representation of the dead, affirm the past of this tragedy, and guarantee specified a fearfulness tin ne'er again happen."