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Bako Sahakyan, aide David Babayan and foreign minister Masis Mayilyan meet the U.S. envoy for Karabakh Andrew Schofer on Oct. 4. Courtesy of NKR President\u2019s office\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>NKR Pres. Bako Sahakyan, aide David Babayan and foreign minister Masis Mayilyan meet the U.S. envoy for Karabakh Andrew Schofer on Oct. 4. 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While Sahakyan has made numerous trips to the United States, mostly for the annual Thanksgiving telethon held in Los Angeles, this is Sahakyan\u2019s first visit to Washington. Sahakyan\u2019s predecessors Arkady Ghoukasyan and Robert Kocharyan visited Washington in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>According to Armenian and Azerbaijani media, Sahakyan is expected to speak at an event in the U.S. Congress on March 14, meet with Washington area policy experts and members of the Armenian community.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes shortly after Congressman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shoogamarketing.com\/usc\/focus-on-karabakh\/highlight\/congressman-wants-us-karabakh-contacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced a resolution<\/a>\u201cexpressing the sense of the House of Representatives supporting visits and communication between the United States and the Republic of Artsakh at all levels of civil society and government.\u201d The resolution currently has 11 co-sponsors. Pallone and two other members of Congress visited Karabakh last September.<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani government, which has long protested any visits to or from Nagorno Karabakh, has protested Sahakyan\u2019s visit, handing a note of protest to U.S. ambassador to Baku. The foreign ministry pledged to retaliate against the U.S. government on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/azertag.az\/ru\/xeber\/Ministerstvo_inostrannyh_del_Azerbaidzhana_napravilo_notu_Gosudarstvennomu_departamentu_SSHA-1144026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basis of reciprocity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/will-trump-ignore-visit-the-president-nagorno-karabakh-24848?page=show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the The National Interest<\/a>\u00a0on March 12, the former US ambassador to Armenia John Evans argued that US and other countries should not accept Azerbaijani efforts to isolate Karabakh. \u201cIt is time for the international community to welcome the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh\u2014Artsakh\u2014into the community of nations,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 3\/14\/2018<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen members of congress, including Rep. Pallone, joined a welcome reception for Sahakyan at one of the congressional buildings on Washington\u2019s Capilot Hill. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EmbassyofArmenia\/photos\/pcb.1937325313004145\/1937323629670980\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Armenian embassy,<\/a>\u00a0Sahakyan welcomed U.S. legislation intended to expand contacts with Nagorno Karabakh and support confidence-building measures in the conflict with Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus-on-karabakh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karabakh President on Visit to Washington<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2018\/03\/12\/karabakh-president-on-visit-to-washington\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karabakh President on Visit to Washington - 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