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    US CONGRESS REVIVES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

    Aysor
    March 4 2010
    Armenia

    Today, March 4, the U.S. Congress will hold vote on Resolution 252,
    declaring that the 1915 massacres of more than a million Armenians
    by Ottoman Turks was Genocide.

    Issue of the Genocide, committed against Armenians by Turks, is some
    kind of 'real politic' and is the international community's choice
    to suppress Turkey.

    Some Turkish resources reported that ahead of the Congressional Panel
    Turkey's President Abdullah Gul had a conversation with U.S. President
    Barack Obama on a phone and urged to call off the Resolution on
    Genocide. He is reported said that the Resolution's passage would
    influence the U.S.-Turkey relations.

    Meanwhile, a day before Congressional Panel's working, a spokesperson
    for the White House said that President Obama "consistently stated
    his position on the events of 1915" and hasn't changed it.

    "Our interest remains the achievement of a full, frank and just
    acknowledgment of the facts," Mike Hammer, spokesman for the National
    Security Council, said in a statement. "We continue to believe that
    the best way to advance that goal is for the Armenian and Turkish
    people to address the facts of the past as a part of their ongoing
    efforts to normalize relations."

    Howard L. Berman, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee and is a
    member of the U.S.-Turkey group of friendship, backs the resolution.

    Berman himself survived the Holocaust, and for him it is a very
    sensitive issue. He said believes that Turkey should be considered
    with its own history.

    Two Turkish delegations arrived in the U.S. to get in resolution
    passage's road. They have held a range of meetings with the U.S.

    officials.

    At the invitation of the resolution's supporters Mark Kirk and Frank
    Pallone Armenian delegation arrived in Washington.

    Referring to the upcoming hearings at the Congress, the resolution's
    passage may be considered as a political decision showing that
    Turkey will not enjoy confidence any more; while if it is called off,
    then it will show that the Obama administration and Ankara have an
    agreement to ratify Armenia-Turkey protocols by April (as 24 April
    is a mourning day for the Genocide Victims of 1915).
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