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    SENATOR MENENDEZ WARNS TO BLOCK BUSH'S NEW PICK FOR AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    25.04.2008 16:50 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, who two years
    ago blocked the nomination of Richard Hoagland for U.S. ambassador
    to Armenia, said he will do the same if President George W. Bush's
    new ambassadorial nominee also fails to use proper wording for the
    Armenian Genocide

    The United States has not been not represented in the Armenian capital
    at the ambassadorial level since May 2006 when Bush fired John Evans,
    who used the term 'genocide,' to describe the massacre of Armenians
    at the hands of Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923.

    In March, Bush nominated Marie L. Yovanovitch, another career diplomat,
    for Yerevan, Turkish Daily News reports.

    Senator Menendez made it clear that he believes the U.S. ambassador
    to Yerevan should characterize the killings as Genocide.

    "I intend to ask the same tough questions to the designate as her
    confirmation process reaches the Senate," Menendez said. "I hope
    Ms. Yovanovitch would respond to the questions in a satisfactory
    way. If not, I will not hesitate to place a hold."

    Meanwhile, the Turkish newspaper mentions that still "if Yovanovitch
    by any chance says 'genocide,' then Washington will get into deep
    trouble with Turkey."
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