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TURKEY: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL CAUTIONS AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
The Obama administration opposes a Congressional resolution that would officially acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and it is not using the issue as a means to prompt Turkey to move forward with a reconciliation initiative with Armenia, a top US State Department official said on March 17.
http://www.eurasianet.org/department...av031710.shtml
ARMENIA: US CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ADOPTS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
A US congressional committee narrowly passed a resolution on March 4 officially to term Ottoman Turkey’s 1915 massacre of ethnic Armenians as genocide. The move is likely to complicate relations between the United States and Turkey, and could bring the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process to a halt.
The resolution, which passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee by a 23-22 vote, is nonbinding, and its prospects in the full House of Representatives are unclear. Nevertheless, Turkish government officials and lobbying groups warned before the vote of adverse consequences if the resolution won approval. Turkish officials specifically mentioned that the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process would be threatened by passage of the genocide resolution.
A similar resolution was adopted by the same committee in 2007 by a slightly wider margin, but never came to a vote in the full House of Representatives.
http://www.eurasianet.org/department...v030410b.shtml
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