Baroness Caroline Cox, former deputy speaker of the House of Lords of Great Britain, is in the United States.
In Washington, she met with legislators, had discussions at the State Department. Baroness Cox visited the local Armenian Church of St. Astvatsatsin.
At the meeting with the representatives of the community, she stated that the main purpose of the visit to the USA is to talk about the Karabakh issue and the humanitarian crisis caused in Armenia as a result of the latest Azerbaijani aggression.
In the conversation with ‘Lurer’s’ correspondent, she emphasized that the important role of Armenia in the current geopolitical rearrangements should be presented more clearly to the international actors.
Baroness Cox is accompanied by Vardan Tadevosyan, director of the rehabilitation center named after Cox in Stepanakert, British clergy, representatives of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) charity organization headed by Cox.
Caroline Cox (Member of the UK House of Lords) - My duty in the House of Lords is to support persecuted peoples. Armenians are under great pressure now. I am here to protect the rights of Armenians and especially the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh who were subjected to ethnic cleansing. I have unprecedented sympathy for the Armenian people, who have suffered for centuries.
Vardan Tadevosyan (Director of Rehabilitation Center named after Caroline Cox of Stepanakert) - In the meetings, it is also discussed that the rehabilitation center named after Cox from Artsakh should be re-established in Armenia, because in Armenia we have about 10,000 people with disabilities forcibly displaced from Artsakh who need such a center.