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SAMANTHA POWER TO BE NAMED UN AMBASSADOR
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Samantha Power
WASHINGTON - A White House official said President Barack Obama will
name former aide Samantha Poweras the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations, reported the Associated Press.
Power will replace Susan Rice, who will take over as Obama's
national security adviser. The official says Obama will announce both
appointments from the White House Wednesday afternoon, according to AP.
Power is a longtime Obama adviser who worked on his 2008 presidential
campaign and ran the human rights office in the White House. She
left the administration in February but was considered the favorite
to replace Rice at the U.N.
Power played an instrumental role in getting Sen. Obama to issue
a strongly-worded statement on the Armenian Genocide and Armenian
issues in general. She also made a video in which she recounted Sen.
Obama's outstanding record on issues of special concern to Armenian
Americans, including his "very forthright statement on the Armenian
Genocide; his support for the Senate Resolution acknowledging the
Genocide; his willingness as President to commemorate it and call a
'spade a spade'; and to speak the truth about it."
A video plea to the Armenian-American community during the 2008
Obama campaign became a rallying tool for Armenians to support the
then senator from Illinois. However, Power failed to deliver-just as
the Obama Administration-on her pledge to get US recognition of the
Armenian Genocide.
In 2003, the Pulitzer Prize in literature for the best general
non-fiction book was awarded to Samantha Power for her book "A Problem
from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide."
Power's book revisited the Armenian Genocide-the Holocaust-Cambodia's
Khmer Rouge-Iraqi attacks on Kurdish populations-Rwanda-and
Bosnian ethnic cleansing. Power makes a compelling argument that US
intervention in all these instances of genocide has been inadequate.
From: Baghdasarian
http://asbarez.com/110446/samantha-power-to-be-named-un-ambassador/
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Samantha Power
WASHINGTON - A White House official said President Barack Obama will
name former aide Samantha Poweras the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations, reported the Associated Press.
Power will replace Susan Rice, who will take over as Obama's
national security adviser. The official says Obama will announce both
appointments from the White House Wednesday afternoon, according to AP.
Power is a longtime Obama adviser who worked on his 2008 presidential
campaign and ran the human rights office in the White House. She
left the administration in February but was considered the favorite
to replace Rice at the U.N.
Power played an instrumental role in getting Sen. Obama to issue
a strongly-worded statement on the Armenian Genocide and Armenian
issues in general. She also made a video in which she recounted Sen.
Obama's outstanding record on issues of special concern to Armenian
Americans, including his "very forthright statement on the Armenian
Genocide; his support for the Senate Resolution acknowledging the
Genocide; his willingness as President to commemorate it and call a
'spade a spade'; and to speak the truth about it."
A video plea to the Armenian-American community during the 2008
Obama campaign became a rallying tool for Armenians to support the
then senator from Illinois. However, Power failed to deliver-just as
the Obama Administration-on her pledge to get US recognition of the
Armenian Genocide.
In 2003, the Pulitzer Prize in literature for the best general
non-fiction book was awarded to Samantha Power for her book "A Problem
from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide."
Power's book revisited the Armenian Genocide-the Holocaust-Cambodia's
Khmer Rouge-Iraqi attacks on Kurdish populations-Rwanda-and
Bosnian ethnic cleansing. Power makes a compelling argument that US
intervention in all these instances of genocide has been inadequate.
From: Baghdasarian