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TURKISH DELEGATIONS TO THE US
Arab Monitor
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio .php?idnews=29881&lang=en
March 1 2010
Ankara, 1 March - The Turkish parliament has sent two delegations
to visit the United States. Both delegations will seek talks with
US officials and lawmakers, especially with members of the House of
Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, to persuade them to drop
a draft resolution which, if approved by the Committee and passed
to the House for voting, would officially categorize the killing of
Armenians during the last years of the Ottoman Empire as "genocide".
Regarding the move by the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs
Committee, the Turkish government has threatened the United States
with consequences. Today the Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed its
regret about the US initiative declaring that such a move is likely to
constitute an obstacle to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian ties
and would, furthermore, harm the Turkish-US relationship. In this
context Ankara threatened it might not meet US expectations for an
enhanced Turkish engagement on the Iraqi issue and in Afghanistan,
if the US, for its part, does not heed Turkish concerns over the
historic Armenian issue.
Arab Monitor
http://www.arabmonitor.info/news/dettaglio .php?idnews=29881&lang=en
March 1 2010
Ankara, 1 March - The Turkish parliament has sent two delegations
to visit the United States. Both delegations will seek talks with
US officials and lawmakers, especially with members of the House of
Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, to persuade them to drop
a draft resolution which, if approved by the Committee and passed
to the House for voting, would officially categorize the killing of
Armenians during the last years of the Ottoman Empire as "genocide".
Regarding the move by the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs
Committee, the Turkish government has threatened the United States
with consequences. Today the Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed its
regret about the US initiative declaring that such a move is likely to
constitute an obstacle to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian ties
and would, furthermore, harm the Turkish-US relationship. In this
context Ankara threatened it might not meet US expectations for an
enhanced Turkish engagement on the Iraqi issue and in Afghanistan,
if the US, for its part, does not heed Turkish concerns over the
historic Armenian issue.