U.S. House of Representatives adopts ANCA-backed amendment

ArmInfo.The U.S. House of Representatives has adopted the amendments backed by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). 

ANCA reported earlier that the U.S. House Rules Committee cleared the  path for full House consideration of four ANCA-backed amendments to  the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA - H.R.7900) that call  for Azerbaijan's immediate release of Armenian POWs, require U.S.  State Department reports on Azerbaijani war crimes, and place  conditions on the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. 

"We would like to thank Chairman McGovern for his leadership of the  Rules Committee and to express our appreciation to the authors,  cosponsors, and all those - in our community and among our coalition  partners - who helped bring these ANCA-backed amendments to the U.S.  House floor," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We will,  in the coming days, strongly back each of these amendments holding  Azerbaijan and Turkey accountable - rallying bipartisan support for  their passage and ultimate enactment into law."