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US CONGRESS TO CONSIDER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
Voice of Russia
March 21 2012
US Congress will consider a draft resolution which was introduced by
Senators Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez in recognition of the Armenian
genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
All previous attempts to race resolutions to this effect through
Congress have failed.
While recognizing "the mass extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire", the US government has so far abstained from referring to it
as "genocide" for fear of spoiling relations with Turkey, one of its
major NATO allies.
Voice of Russia
March 21 2012
US Congress will consider a draft resolution which was introduced by
Senators Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez in recognition of the Armenian
genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
All previous attempts to race resolutions to this effect through
Congress have failed.
While recognizing "the mass extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire", the US government has so far abstained from referring to it
as "genocide" for fear of spoiling relations with Turkey, one of its
major NATO allies.