The Biden administration appears to be slow-walking the
\nrenewal of a long-standing military assistance program to Azerbaijan amid
\ngrowing warnings of ethnic cleansing in the breakaway region of
\nNagorno-Karabakh, Politico writes.
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These competing political pressures are creating a delicate
\nlandscape in the South Caucasus for the Biden administration, which is caught
\nin a struggle between its values and the pragmatic realities of geopolitics.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza told
\nPolitico that going ahead with the 907 waiver at this particular moment would
\ncreate a political firestorm for the Biden administration. But killing the 907
\nwaiver at this delicate diplomatic juncture would seriously risk derailing a
\npeace treaty that is closer than it has ever been.
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Spokespeople for the State Department and the The Biden administration appears to be slow-walking the renewal of a long-standing military assistance program to Azerbaijan amid growing warnings of ethnic cleansing in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Politico writes. These competing political pressures are creating a delicate landscape in the South Caucasus for the Biden administration, which is caught in a struggle between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,118,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-region","category-artsakh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNational Security Council confirmed that the military assistance waiver remains
\nunder review but denied that the current state of peace talks or recent events
\nin Nagorno-Karabakh were affecting the timeline for renewing it. The
\nspokespeople for the State Department also noted that the U.S. policy on
\nAzerbaijan has not changed, adding that the United States values its strategic
\npartnership with Azerbaijan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"