Hon. Frank Pallone, Jr. February 26, 2016 Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the Sumgait pogroms, one of the most horrific attacks against the Armenian people, committed at the hands of Azerbaijanis 28 years ago. On February 27, 1988, hundreds of Armenian civilians living in the city of Sumgait in Azerbaijan were indiscriminately killed, raped, maimed, and even burned alive for no reason other than their ethnicity. This senseless violence was instigated by hostile, anti

(L-R): Armenian Assembly Communications Director Taniel Koushakjian, Kathryn Porter, Rep. Robert Dold (R-IL), Nagorno Karabakh Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) joined the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues in co-hosting the annual Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh independence celebration on Capitol Hill, alongside the U.S. Office of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR), the Embassy of Armenia in the U.S., an