Azerbaijan Sanctions Review Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5369 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5369 To provide for a review of sanctions with respect to Azerbaijan. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 15, 2025 Ms. Titus introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide for a review of sanctions with respect to Azerbaijan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Azerbaijan Sanctions Review Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan launched a military assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, resulting in the forced displacement of the region's entire Armenian population following a 10-month blockade of the Lachin Corridor, which deprived Armenian civilians access to food, fuel, medicine and other essential goods. (2) Azerbaijan's blockade and forced displacement of Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians followed a major escalation of the conflict during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, during which Azerbaijani military and government officials named in section 3(b) have committed war crimes and serious human rights violations, including the extrajudicial killing of Armenian civilians and prisoners of war; the arbitrary detention, forced disappearances, and torture of Armenian civilians and prisoners of war and other captives, and the deliberate targeting of civilian populations. (3) Azerbaijan's continued detainment, torture, extra