As is it known, the US Helsinki Commission, headed by Congressman Christopher Smith on December 17 presented to Congress a bill to impose sanctions against Azerbaijan, the press service of the Milli Majlis informs.

The bill, which has a clear anti-Azerbaijani nature and offers to review relations with our country, to impose sanctions on Azerbaijani officials and other measures, has caused a sharp reaction from Baku.

Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliamentary Committee on Policy and State Formation Rovshan Rzayev made a legislative initiative to express attitude to the anti-Azerbaijani document of Chris Smith. MP Rzayev has prepared a draft resolution of the Milli Mejlis 'On Human Rights in the United States.'

The draft will be discussed at a joint meeting of the Committee on International and Interparliamentary Relations and Human Rights Committee of the Parliament. The document says that Azerbaijan for years of independence has repeatedly faced the policy of double standards on the part of various organisations of the United States.

The project noted that some American organisations under various pretexts are trying to interfere in the internal and foreign policy of Azerbaijan.

The draft recalls that the United States, which prepares annual reports on human rights in the world, are constantly seeking reasons not to sign international human rights treaties. To date, the United States ratified only four of the 14 fundamental UN documents regulating human rights. So far, the Convention on the Rights of the Child did not join only two countries - Somalia and the United States.

Project of the Azerbaijani MP offers to stop cooperation with the US in the field of energy security and in the military sphere, to suspend the participation of Azeri military in peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan, to prohibit the transit of military and other US cargoes through the territory of Azerbaijan, as well as the use for the purpose of infrastructure in Azerbaijan, to start US withdrawal procedure from the post of a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.