📄 What the Armenia Security Partnership Act is:

The Armenia Security Partnership Act (H.R. 6840) is bipartisan U.S. legislation that would require the Secretary of Defense to officially certify whether Azerbaijan has taken specific actions toward peace with Armenia, including:

• fully withdrawing all military forces from Armenian sovereign territory;
• releasing all Armenian prisoners;stopping hostilities;
• recognizing a right of return for ethnic Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh and committing to protect Armenian cultural and religious sites.

If Azerbaijan fails to meet those benchmarks, the bill triggers:

1. a review of U.S. security assistance to Armenia, assessing Armenia’s defense needs and threats;

2. prohibiting the President from waiving restrictions on U.S. aid to Azerbaijan under Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act (the waiver authority used in the past to allow U.S. aid to Azerbaijan).

📌 Why it’s important:

✔️ Holds Azerbaijan accountable: It ties U.S. policy to concrete benchmarks for peace and human rights rather than treating conflict or violations as normal.
✔️ Strengthens Armenia’s security posture: It ensures the U.S. regularly assesses threats facing Armenia and its defense needs.
✔️ Limits U.S. aid to Baku unless progress is real: By blocking the presidential waiver of aid restrictions to Azerbaijan, it preserves leverage over Azerbaijani actions.

In short, the bill would make U.S. support for peace and security in the South Caucasus conditional on real steps toward justice, the protection of Armenian rights, and respect for sovereignty — rather than allowing aid to continue without accountability.