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    U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER OBAMA CALLS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    ARKA
    May 4, 2008

    YEREVAN, May 4. /ARKA/. U.S. Presidential contender senator Barack
    Obama made a statement in marking the 93rd anniversary of the genocide
    of Armenian in Ottoman Empire.

    "It is imperative that we recognize the horrific acts carried out
    against the Armenian people as genocide and I will continue to stand
    with the Armenian American community in calling for the Government
    of Turkey to acknowledge it as such," Obama said as quoted by the
    Armenian National Committee of America.

    The Armenian genocide is a well-documented fact proved by many historic
    evidences, he said.

    Obama expressed his deep regret over the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia
    John Evans dismissed in September 2006 after having used the word
    "genocide". The post of U.S. Ambassador has been vacant since then.

    Obama urged Condoleezza Rice to seriously look into the unstable
    stand of the U.S. Government on the matter.

    Obama pledged to continue efforts for recognition of the Armenian
    genocide and conveyed his condolences to the Armenian people.

    Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX
    century. Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing
    of one and a half million Armenians during World War I.

    The fact of the Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries,
    particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the
    U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus,
    Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common
    House of Canada, the Seym of Poland and lower house of Italian
    parliament.
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