YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS. Senior House Foreign Affairs Committee member Brad Sherman (D-CA) on May 18 called on the State Department to conduct a “Leahy Law” investigation of Azerbaijani war crimes committed during the April 2-7 attacks against Nagorno Karabakh, and urged an immediate suspension of military aid to Baku, citing the Aliyev regime’s ongoing attacks on Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh, the Armenian National Committee of America informed “Armenpres”.

“The Aliyev government continues to launch cross-border attacks against Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, regularly threatens to renew hill-scale hostilities, and refuses US and international calls to pull back snipers. Azerbaijan neither needs nor deserves American military aid”, US Congressman said this in the letter to the State Department.

Earlier a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee Loretta Sanchez made a similar call for a “Leahy Law” investigation against Azerbaijan.

The “Leahy Law” was firstly presented in 1997. It is a US human rights law that prohibits the US Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.