Derek Tran Condemns Genocide in Armenia

Nov

2023

PRESS RELEASE

Derek Tran Condemns Genocide in Armenia

Garden Grove, CA — Today, U.S. Army Veteran, Consumer Rights Attorney, City Commissioner, and Small Business Owner, Derek Tran who is running California’s 45th Congressional District, spoke out against the atrocities being committed in Artsakh.

“What is happening in Artsakh is genocide. I am appalled and the United States must respond. In Congress I will fight for the US’s formal recognition of the independent Republic of Nagorno Karabagh (Artsakh), affirming its right to self-determination within secure borders. In addition, the US should expand the annual US assistance to the Republic to at least $8 million in US developmental and humanitarian aid to offset ongoing Azerbaijani aggression and a blockade in place since 1988. As Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the US should clearly and unequivocally condemn Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia and Artsakh.”

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California’s 45th is a Congressional District representing portions of Orange and Los Angeles Counties in Southern California. A majority-minority district, the District has the second largest AAPI population (36.97%) of any Congressional District, and the largest Vietnamese community in the country. President Biden won the current district lines by +6 points and it has a +6 point Democratic registration advantage. It includes all or part of the Cities of Garden Grove, Westminster, Cerritos, Buena Park, Placentia, Hawaiian Gardens, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Artesia, Los Alamitos, La Palma, Brea, Lakewood, and Fullerton, as well as the unincorporated community of Rossmoor.

The DCCC has listed it as a “District In Play.”

Use of Derek Tran's military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Dept. of Defense or U.S. Army.