Azerbaijan America Alliance

The Azerbaijan America Alliance is a non-partisan, non-profit organization providing information broadly about the people, culture, society, industry, history and current events of the Azeri people. The purpose includes research and advocacy on issues of interest to the alliance.

The mission of the alliance is to foster an atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect between the people of Azerbaijan and America. Through academic discussion, cultural programming, and political discourse, the alliance aims to become the premier organization dedicated to promoting a lasting partnership between Azerbaijan and the United States.

The Azerbaijan America Alliance hopes to educate congressional representatives on the growing significance of Azerbaijan’s relationship with the United States – politically, economically and militarily.

Through this program of education, the alliance hopes to bring renewed focus on the South Caucasus region and, in particular, the role that Azerbaijan plays in the War on Terror - providing troops and allowing free movement of American troops through their territory - and as a market for American businesses.

• Expand the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus
• Educate the United States Congress on the geopolitical significance of the relationship between Azerbaijan and the United States
• Repeal Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act
• Encourage politicians to help mediate an amicable settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

The alliance recognizes and respects the important work that existing diaspora groups have done over past decades, building a core community through a variety of grassroots events. The alliance is dedicated to the diaspora.

The alliance intends to, working alongside existing groups, expand and improve the Diaspora`s grassroots efforts - building a community to support the alliance's political initiatives.

In 1992 Congress passed the Freedom Support Act, which was designed to assist former Soviet republics in their transition to democracy. The only republic excluded from this aid package was Azerbaijan, which was singled out in Section 907 of the Act.

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