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PanArmenian News, Armenia
April 24 2009
ASA expresses regret for President Obama's failure to keep his
electoral promise
25.04.2009 19:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On April 24, the Armenian Council of America (ACA)
stated with great disappointment that US President Barack Obama
retreated his pledge of promoting changes in Washington's policy, ACA
reported to PanARMENIAN.Net. `Barack Obama did not keep is
pre-electoral promise, and preferred to characterize the 1915 events
as the `greatest atrocities of the 20th century',' the ACA report
says. Although the President has gone further than his predecessors by
continuously stating that his `personal views have not changed,' he
swayed on his pledge towards historical truth with the absence of the
word `genocide'.
Nonetheless, ACA attaches great importance to the fact that the US
President and his advisors realize that Armenia and Turkey cannot
normalize their relations unless Ankara acknowledges the historical
truth. `I feel deep sorrow that Obama did not keep his promise under
Turkey's pressure of refusing to normalize its ties with Armenia,' ASA
Chairman Vazgen Khodanyan said.
April 24 2009
ASA expresses regret for President Obama's failure to keep his
electoral promise
25.04.2009 19:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On April 24, the Armenian Council of America (ACA)
stated with great disappointment that US President Barack Obama
retreated his pledge of promoting changes in Washington's policy, ACA
reported to PanARMENIAN.Net. `Barack Obama did not keep is
pre-electoral promise, and preferred to characterize the 1915 events
as the `greatest atrocities of the 20th century',' the ACA report
says. Although the President has gone further than his predecessors by
continuously stating that his `personal views have not changed,' he
swayed on his pledge towards historical truth with the absence of the
word `genocide'.
Nonetheless, ACA attaches great importance to the fact that the US
President and his advisors realize that Armenia and Turkey cannot
normalize their relations unless Ankara acknowledges the historical
truth. `I feel deep sorrow that Obama did not keep his promise under
Turkey's pressure of refusing to normalize its ties with Armenia,' ASA
Chairman Vazgen Khodanyan said.