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Chu and Speier got a tour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MineFreeNK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Halo Trust base<\/a> in addition to meeting with president Bako Sahakyan and other NKR leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Chu and Speier joined 87 other House Representatives and 22 Senators, who co-signed <a href=\"https:\/\/armenian-assembly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/08.06.19-Letter-to-USAID-for-Demining-in-Artsakh.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter<\/a> to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) urging continued U.S. support for de-mining work in Nagorno Karabakh administered by Halo Trust. In July, <a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/congress-considers-karabakh-amendments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congress adopted<\/a> Rep. Chu&#8217;s amendment supporting cease-fire strengthening measures on the Karabakh Line of Contact. And in September, Rep. Speier joined other members calling for an <a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/congress-members-want-us-security-aid-to-azerbaijan-stopped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end to U.S. security aid to Azerbaijan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Reps. Chu and Speier visited Stepanakert a week after <a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/congressman-pallone-visits-artsakh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rep. Frank Pallone<\/a> (D-N.J.) did, and just ahead of the Pro-Artsakh Forum held in Stepanakert on October 11-12. The forum, co-organized by the Artsakh government and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, involved over 100 guests from 30 countries, including parliamentarians from France and Russia, and local elected officials from the United States. According to the Armenian National Committee of America, a number of members of Congress issued statements welcoming the Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","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>Reps. 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