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    CONGRESS PRESSES AHEAD WITH MEASURE ON ARMENIA 'GENOCIDE'

    Focus News
    March 4 2010
    Bulgaria

    Washington. The White House said Thursday that it had urged a key
    congressional committee not to press ahead with a vote that would
    brand as a "genocide" World War I era massacres of Armenians by
    Ottoman Turks, AFP reported.

    The vote was to go on as scheduled Thursday at a hearing already
    underway in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and if approved is
    to be sent to the full House.

    The spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Mike
    Hammer, said in a statement that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    had urged the committee to cancel the vote.

    "Secretary Clinton called Chairman (Howard) Berman yesterday and in
    that conversation the secretary indicated that further congressional
    action could impede progress on normalization of relations," Hammer
    said in a statement.

    The resolution, which is non-binding, calls on President Barack Obama
    to ensure that US foreign policy reflects an understanding of the
    "genocide" and to label the mass killings as such in his annual
    statement on the issue.
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