On July 8, Christian Solidarity International’s President Dr. John Eibner will join two Swiss members of parliament and ex-Armenian Foreign Minister in Washington DC to present the Swiss Peace Initiative for Nagorno Karabakh.
The delegation will be presented on Capitol Hill, from 3:00-4:00 pm in Room 2044 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
Nagorno Karabakh was home to 120,000 Armenian Christians – one of the oldest Christian communities in the world – until the entire population was expelled during an Azerbaijani military operation in September 2023, following a nine-month blockade.
In March of this year, the Swiss parliament mandated the Swiss government to hold a peace forum within one year, where representatives of the expelled Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh will be able to meet with representatives from Azerbaijan to prepare their safe return to their homeland.
“The Swiss Peace Initiative is the most significant effort undertaken by any Western nation to promote the safe return of Armenian Christians to their homeland,” said Eibner. “If the United States were to lend its support, it could make a crucial contribution to peace and prosperity in a dangerously unstable region and offer hope of saving one of the world’s oldest Christian communities from disappearing.”
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