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    Hürriyet, Turkey
    May 17 2008



    Armenia asks US to press Turkey to normalize relations


    Armenian lobby in the United States presented a new bill to House of
    Representatives envisaging Washington to put pressure on Ankara to
    lift the embargo which it claimed Turkey imposes on Armenia, the
    state-run Anatolian Agency reported Saturday.


    Adam Schiff, an MP of U.S. Democrat Party, prepared the bill. Schiff
    is known as leading Armenian initiatives in the House of
    Representatives.

    The bill envisages U.S. to launch initiatives for the removal of the
    alleged embargo and U.S. Secretary of State to prepare a report for
    the Congress about the incidents.

    The same text should be submitted to the senate and the bill should be
    adopted both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate and
    should be signed by U.S. President in order to be enacted.

    Armenian lobby in the United States had submitted a similar bill two
    years ago but the bill has not been presented to the agenda of the
    House of Representatives.

    Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic links after Ankara severed ties
    in protest against Armenian control and violence in the
    Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Armenia invaded in a war with
    Azerbaijan in the early 1990s. The border between Turkey and Armenia
    has been closed.

    Armenia's genocide claims are another problem in two countries'
    relations. Armenia, with the backing of the diaspora, claims up to 1.5
    million of their kin were slaughtered in orchestrated killings in
    1915. However 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.
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