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In recent years, the focus has been on supporting humanitarian de-mining by British charity HALO Trust. Shortly before the visit, Rep. Valadao secured continued funding for that program.<\/p>\n<p>While members of Congress used to visit Armenia and Karabakh frequently in the 1990s, no visits to Karabakh had taken place since August 2002, when Pallone and Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett observed presidential elections there. The pause coincided with greater restrictions on foreign travel for U.S. lawmakers, making trips to Yerevan rare as well, but was likely also the product of specific State Department recommendations against their travel to Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani government has also sought to restrict foreign visits to Karabakh, blacklisting politicians visiting there and launching diplomatic protests. While this had no visible impact on European politicians, who continued to visit Karabakh frequently, visits by members of the Russian parliament \u2013 the State Duma \u2013 have also been curtailed, with the most recent visit by a Russian parliament member in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Gabbard, Pallone and Valadao were part of a larger congressional delegation that arrived in Armenia, as the country hosted the 6th Armenia-Diaspora conference. For the first time in the history of congressional delegations to Armenia, it was funded by the Armenian government as part of an exchange program with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In late August,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emil_sanamyan\/status\/904737778306621440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two Canadian parliamentarians<\/a>\u00a0were in Karabakh to look into reports of war crimes committed against civilians in the village of Talish during April 2016 fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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