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US ARMENIANS SLAM RICE OVER 'GENOCIDE'
Hurriyet Daily News
Nov 10 2011
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures while delivering
a speech at the National Auditorium in Mexico City on Sept. 9. AFP
photo
The largest U.S. Armenian group has condemned former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice "for bragging about twice killing U.S. recognition"
of what the Armenians call the "Armenian genocide."
In an open letter to the Armenian-American community, Ken Hachikian,
chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), said
Rice in her new memoir "boasts of stopping the dreaded Armenian
genocide resolutions" in 1991 and 2007.
"Rice taking pride in covering up genocide shows what's wrong with
Washington... The powerful Armenian lobby she attacks is you. It's me,"
Hachikian said Nov. 8.
"Help us bring about the day when someone in Rice's position would
never dare compromise America's standing by so wretchedly playing
the genocide card as a political commodity," he said.
Rice, now a political scientist at Stanford University, was national
security advisor to former President George W. Bush, a Republican,
during the latter's first term between 2001 and 2005. She was secretary
of state during his second term between 2005 and 2009.
Rice recently wrote and published "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My
Years in Washington."
Armenians label World War I-era killings of their kinsmen in
the Ottoman Empire as "genocide" and particularly urge the U.S.
administration and Congress to recognize it as such. In recent decades
such efforts have been unsuccessful.
Turkey has warned that in the event of the administration's or
Congress' formal "genocide" recognition, its relations with the U.S.
will deteriorate in a major and lasting way.
The Bush administration successfully fought against these Armenian
efforts in 2005 and 2007.
The current Democratic President, Barack Obama, had pledged to
recognize the "Armenian genocide" before his election. But after
he became president he, like earlier presidents, fought against
such recognition. The Obama administration, in a behind-the-scenes
effort, prevented the latest "genocide" resolution in the House of
Representatives, Congress' lower chamber, from coming to a floor vote
last year.
From: A. Papazian
Hurriyet Daily News
Nov 10 2011
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures while delivering
a speech at the National Auditorium in Mexico City on Sept. 9. AFP
photo
The largest U.S. Armenian group has condemned former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice "for bragging about twice killing U.S. recognition"
of what the Armenians call the "Armenian genocide."
In an open letter to the Armenian-American community, Ken Hachikian,
chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), said
Rice in her new memoir "boasts of stopping the dreaded Armenian
genocide resolutions" in 1991 and 2007.
"Rice taking pride in covering up genocide shows what's wrong with
Washington... The powerful Armenian lobby she attacks is you. It's me,"
Hachikian said Nov. 8.
"Help us bring about the day when someone in Rice's position would
never dare compromise America's standing by so wretchedly playing
the genocide card as a political commodity," he said.
Rice, now a political scientist at Stanford University, was national
security advisor to former President George W. Bush, a Republican,
during the latter's first term between 2001 and 2005. She was secretary
of state during his second term between 2005 and 2009.
Rice recently wrote and published "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My
Years in Washington."
Armenians label World War I-era killings of their kinsmen in
the Ottoman Empire as "genocide" and particularly urge the U.S.
administration and Congress to recognize it as such. In recent decades
such efforts have been unsuccessful.
Turkey has warned that in the event of the administration's or
Congress' formal "genocide" recognition, its relations with the U.S.
will deteriorate in a major and lasting way.
The Bush administration successfully fought against these Armenian
efforts in 2005 and 2007.
The current Democratic President, Barack Obama, had pledged to
recognize the "Armenian genocide" before his election. But after
he became president he, like earlier presidents, fought against
such recognition. The Obama administration, in a behind-the-scenes
effort, prevented the latest "genocide" resolution in the House of
Representatives, Congress' lower chamber, from coming to a floor vote
last year.
From: A. Papazian