ANCA welcomes hold on confirmation of U.S. envoy to Baku

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) welcomes the “hold” placed by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on President Trump’s controversial nomination of Alexander Alden to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan — a move that allows the new Senate to carefully vet him after the new Congress is sworn in this coming January. “The ANCA welcomes the hold by Senator Thom Tillis on the confirmation of Alexander Alden to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan. This is far too consequential a nomination to be rubber-stamped during a lame-duck session, all the more so given the Trump Administration’s reckless rush to normalize Azerbaijan’s genocide of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh),” stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Suren Hamparian. Sen. Tillis announced his plans to Semafor White House reporter Eleanor Mueller, who first reported on the Alden nomination on Nov. 10. “I’m not going to let him out. Done,” Tillis told Mueller.

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