The Armenian National Committee of America has called on U.S. President Obama to abandon demonstrably failed policy of false parity.

ANCA issued the following statement in regards with the recent escalation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and line of contact:

“The Obama Administration flashes Baku the green light each time it chooses to limit the U.S. response to Azerbaijan’s unilateral aggression to generic calls upon all sides to refrain from violence.

Everyone – ranging from the senior officials who run U.S. intelligence agencies to bright 9th graders who follow foreign affairs – knows that it’s Ilham Aliyev who is initiating these attacks. Pretending otherwise is a transparent farce, one that is being perpetrated with deadly consequences.

President Obama should abandon this deeply flawed and now demonstrably failed policy of false parity, and instead undertake concrete, common sense steps to avert war and put in place the foundations for a just and lasting peace. Among these are international proposals – already agreed to by Armenia and Artsakh, but not by Azerbaijan – such as agreements on the non-deployment of snipers, the addition of OSCE observers, and the internationally mandated deployment of gunfire-locator systems along the line of contact.”