Sargis Church, while the European Parliament in March 2023 condemned an Azerbaijani policy to erase and deny Armenian cultural heritage in and around Nagorno-Karabakh . (16) In a September 2022 report, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expressed deep concern in Azerbaijan regarding ‘‘[i]ncitement to racial hatred and the propagation of racist stereotypes against persons of Armenian national or ethnic origin, including on the Internet and social media, as well as by public figures and government officials, and the lack of detailed information on investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sanctions for such acts’’. (17) Any peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan will only be sustainable if its includes protections for the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. (18) On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan launched an assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, and in the first days of that attack killed more than 200 civilians, including children, and wounding 400. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) long-standing U.S. policy not to recognize changes to borders or political status that a party to a conflict attempts to make by force or aggression should be applied in relation to Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Armenia