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| | The Armenian Weekly Online: January 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | By lifting Section 907, despite these bad faith tactics and the stalling on the part of Azerbaijan, the United States, which is one of the mediators, would be turning around and once again rewarding Azerbaijan for their intransigence in these negotiations. |
 | | The opposition to Section 907 has periodically been led by the Administration, friends of Azerbaijan and Turkey in either the Senate or the House, the oil lobby and occasionally other allies of Azerbaijan and Turkey, specifically, elements of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. |
 | | The amendment weakening Section 907, which the Senate passed last week, is written such that the waiver will expire on December 31, 2002, unless the President of the United States reports that it is in the national security interests of the United States to extend the waiver. |
| www.hairenik.com /armenianweekly/jan_2002/politics001.html (2081 words) |
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