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NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR FOR ARMENIA APPROVED BY SENATE
Hurriyet
Aug 2 2008
Turkey
The U.S. Senate confirmed the Bush administration's nominees as
ambassadors to Armenia after a delay by lawmakers who were unhappy
with Marie Yavonavitch's refusal to accept so-called "genocide" claims.
Armenian-American groups sought to force the adminsitration to change
its policy on the 1915 incidents.
Yovanovitch stuck clearly in the hearing to U.S. policy not to label
the incidents as "genocide".
Last year, the White House withdrew its nomination of career diplomat
Richard Hoagland after one lawmaker blocked it in an objection to
that policy. The post had remained vacant for two years.
Armenia, with the backing of the Diaspora, claims up to 1.5 million
of their kin were slaughtered in orchestrated killings in 1915. Turkey
rejects the claims, saying that 300,000 Armenians along with at least
as many Turks died in civil strife that emerged when the Armenians
took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia.
Hurriyet
Aug 2 2008
Turkey
The U.S. Senate confirmed the Bush administration's nominees as
ambassadors to Armenia after a delay by lawmakers who were unhappy
with Marie Yavonavitch's refusal to accept so-called "genocide" claims.
Armenian-American groups sought to force the adminsitration to change
its policy on the 1915 incidents.
Yovanovitch stuck clearly in the hearing to U.S. policy not to label
the incidents as "genocide".
Last year, the White House withdrew its nomination of career diplomat
Richard Hoagland after one lawmaker blocked it in an objection to
that policy. The post had remained vacant for two years.
Armenia, with the backing of the Diaspora, claims up to 1.5 million
of their kin were slaughtered in orchestrated killings in 1915. Turkey
rejects the claims, saying that 300,000 Armenians along with at least
as many Turks died in civil strife that emerged when the Armenians
took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia.