User:Atabəy/United States-Azerbaijan relations

United States and Azerbaijan had relations since 1919, when the delegation of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic attended the Paris Peace Conference and was granted audience by President Woodrow Wilson. At this meeting Wilson advised the Azerbaijanis that it would be better for them to develop a spirit of confederation with neighboring countries of Georgia and Armenia, and that such a confederation of all peoples of Transcaucasia could receive the protection of some Power on the basis of a mandate granted by the League of Nations. However, in 1922, after the Bolshevik takeover, Azerbaijan SSR became part of Soviet Union and no direct formal relations existed between Azerbaijan and the United States.

On October 18 1991, a declaration adopted by the Azerbaijani parliament formally restored the independence of Azerbaijan. Subsequently, on December 25, 1991 President George H W Bush announced that the United States recognized Azerbaijan's independence, as it did of all 12 former USSR union republics

Diplomatic missions

 * Embassy of the United States in Baku
 * Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Washington DC
 * Consulate General of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles