US Congressman Joe Heck (Joe Heck, a Republican, Nevada) February 12 supported the bill “Act of democracy in Azerbaijan» (HR 4264), providing for the imposition of sanctions against Azerbaijan told Turan’s Washington correspondent source in the US Congress.

“The bill is now officially has two co-authors,” – said the source.

However, as the source said, “it has not yet announced when the bill will be submitted for a full vote.”

The bill called “Act of democracy in Azerbaijan” was put forward at the end of last year, an influential congressman and head of the Helsinki Commission Christopher Smith.

Earlier it was reported that the first co-author of the bill was the Democratic Congressman Louise Slaughter.