Newsweek: Congress should repeal Section 907 and authorize strategic investment in the Trump Route

Published: 2026-04-15 13:28

"Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act continues to restrict U.S. assistance to Azerbaijan—a NATO energy partner, one of Israel's top oil suppliers, and a country whose sovereign territory was just struck by Iranian drones. The underlying conflict that prompted Section 907 ended with a U.S.-brokered peace deal. The restriction serves no strategic purpose," Newsweek, one of the leading U.S. news magazines, reports.

"Congress should repeal Jackson-Vanik and grant permanent normal trade relations to Central Asian states and Azerbaijan. It should repeal Section 907. And it should authorize strategic investment in the TRIPP and Middle Corridor infrastructure—not as foreign aid, but as supply-chain security with direct returns for American industry and defense," the magazine adds.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News