Armenian Assembly Notes Key Priorities for U.S.-Armenia Relations Secretary of State Nominee, Rex Tillerson WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 23, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State nomination of Rex Tillerson by a party line vote of 11 to 10, clearing the path for approval by the full Senate. As genocide denialists are calling upon President Trump and his team to guarantee that the Armenian Genocide will not be recognized b

Urges Strengthening Permanent Bonds Between Armenia and the United States WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets today to consider President-Elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Nominee Mr. Rex Tillerson, former ExxonMobil CEO, the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) highlighted key policy issues in a letter sent to Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) and Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-MD). “We need a Secretary of State committed to strengthening the p

By Bryan Ardouny AAA News Blog June 15, 2015 Last week, the US House Appropriations Committee adopted the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) funding bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, which covers US assistance to Armenia and the region. As we reported last week, funding for South Caucasus countries was not specifically delineated. However, there are several points in the Committee’s Report that matter to Armenian Americans, particularly Armenians and other