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    REP. ENGEL, VAN HOLLEN, LOWEY AND WAXMAN COSPSNSOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TRUTH AND JUSTICE RESOLUTION

    http://armenpress.am/eng/print/728390/rep-engel-van-hollen-lowey-and-waxman-cospsnsor-armenian-genocide-truth-and-justice-resolution.html
    15:33, 6 August, 2013

    YEREVAN, 6 AUGUST, ARMENPRESS: Senior Congressional leaders serving
    on key foreign policy and appropriations panels have lent their
    support to a groundbreaking human rights measure that seeks improved
    Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey's acknowledgement of the
    Armenian Genocide and a just international resolution of this still
    unpunished crime, reports Armenpress referring to the Armenian National
    Committee of America (ANCA).

    Among the top House Committee leaders supporting H.Res.227, the
    Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution are: Representatives
    Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs
    Committee; Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the Chairman of the Financial Markets
    Subcommittee on Capital Markets; Rush Holt (D-NJ), the Ranking Member
    of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy; Steve Israel (D-NY),
    the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee;
    Nita Lowey (DNY), the Ranking Member on the Appropriations Committee;
    Grace Napolitano (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources
    Subcommittee on Water and Power; Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Chairman of
    the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade; Janice Schakowsky (D-IL),
    the Chief Deputy Whip; Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), the Vice Ranking Member
    on the Budget Committee, Brad Sherman (D-CA), the Ranking Member on
    the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, John Tierney (D-MA),
    the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee
    on National Security; Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the Ranking Member on
    the Budget Committee, and; Henry Waxman (D-CA), the Ranking Member
    of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

    Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam
    Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (DNJ) in May of
    this year, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution reflects
    and reinforces previous U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide
    as a crime of genocide, citing the U.S. Government's May 28, 1951
    written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the
    Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
    President Ronald Reagan's April 22, 1981 Proclamation and Congressional
    adoption of Armenian Genocide legislation in 1975 and 1984. H.Res.227
    builds on the record of past U.S.

    Executive and Legislative branch affirmation of this crime, and calls
    on "the President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable,
    and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of
    Turkey's full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences
    of the Armenian Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive
    international resolution of this crime against humanity."

    ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian discussed the very real, modern
    day consequences of Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide - and
    international community inaction in the face of that denial. "Turkey's
    obstruction of justice has, over the course of nearly a century,
    allowed Ankara to consolidate its hold on the genocidal gains of its
    crimes against the Armenian people, blocking the return to the Armenian
    nation of key elements-indispensable elements-of viability that long
    sustained the Armenian people on their ancient homeland," explained
    Hamparian, in a May 9th op/ed. "This denial poisons Armenian-Turkish
    relations, fosters wave after wave of antiArmenian intolerance within
    Turkey, threatens Armenia's and Artsakh's security, and, of course,
    fuels regional tensions."

    Prominent supporters of this bipartisan measure also include the two
    Members of Congress of Armenian heritage, Congresswomen Anna Eshoo
    (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on
    Communications and Technology; Jackie Speier (D-CA), the Ranking Member
    of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy,
    Health Care and Entitlements; Tim Bishop (D-NY), the Ranking Member of
    the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources
    and Environment, and; Jim McGovern (D-MA), the Co-Chair of the Tom
    Lantos Human Rights Commission, and Representatives Gus Bilirakis
    (R-FL), Bruce Braley (D-IA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Tony Cardenas
    (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA) , David Cicilline (D-RI), Chris Collins (R-NY),
    Jim Costa (DCA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jeff Denham (R-CA), Janice Hahn
    (D-CA), James Langevin (D-RI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY),
    Gary Peters (D-MI) , John Sarbanes (D-MD), and Dina Titus (D-NV).

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