After the U.S. Senate approved Resolution #175, which recognizes Georgia's territorial integrity and calls Abkhazia and South Ossetia occupied territories, the US Azeris Network (USAN) applied to the US Senate for approving a resolution recognizing Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, reports the Baku-based Zerkalo newspaper.

USAN asked the Azeri Diaspora to address letters to U.S. officials and demand the adoption of a similar resolution on Azerbaijan.
In its letter to the U.S. Senate, USAN calls on them to recognize the violation of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and sovereignty and call for a peaceful and fair resolution of the conflict within internationally recognized territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

Stressing that the U.S. Senators are unlikely to give ear to Azeris' appeals, the newspaper writes: "There are hardly high hopes that the Azeri Diaspora's appeal will produce positive results. For some reason, western politicians do not equally assess the consequences of ethnic and territorial conflicts in the post-Soviet area. Since early 1990s European and U.S. politicians have not had any doubts concerning the territorial integrity of Georgia and Moldova, whereas they have made an ambiguous interpretation in the case of Nagorno-Karabakh.

"In the case of the Georgian and Moldovan conflicts the west applies only one international principle, territorial integrity, to them. In the case of Azerbaijan, however, they 'recall' another principle, peoples' right to self-determination. So what are the reasons why the people in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria are denied the right to self-determination, whereas Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians' right is recognized?

"Armenians, as a nation, gained independence within the territory of the Republic of Armenia long ago, and none of their neighbors is laying claims to their territories though they have all historical grounds for that," the source writes.