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ARAM HAMPARIAN: IT'S TIME FOR NEW AMERICAN APPROACH TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
14:41 08/05/2013 " POLITICS
Aram Hamparian, the ANCA Executive Director, has published an article
in Asbarez.com, where he spoke about the position of the United States
on the Armenian Genocide. The article says, in part:
"It's time for a new American approach to the Armenian Genocide,
one that is as simple as it is sound: Progress and peace based upon
truth and justice.
American policy on the Armenian Genocide can be both principled
and practical.
Years of futile U.S. efforts to appease Turkey have failed to end
Ankara's blockade of Armenia and only hardened Ankara's denial of
truth and obstruction of justice for this crime.
This denial poisons Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after
wave of anti-Armenian intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia's
and Artsakh's security, and, of course, fuels regional tensions.
The future of this region - it's sustainable stability over the
long-term - cannot be built upon a foundation of lies. Justice is
good geopolitics.
It's time for the Obama-Biden Administration to reject Ankara's
gag-rule and proudly reaffirm our government's record of having
recognized the Armenian Genocide. Sadly, under foreign pressure,
President Obama has failed to reflect, much less reinforce, America's
standing acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide as a crime of
genocide.
After years of failed efforts to appease Ankara, it's time for
President Obama to honor his words, and for our government to live
up to America's promise of truth and justice.
It's time to stop outsourcing our nation's Armenian Genocide policy
to Turkey, and - in the interest of both regional stability and our
core values as a nation - to reclaim American leadership in support
of a truthful and just resolution of this crime."
Source: Panorama.am
14:41 08/05/2013 " POLITICS
Aram Hamparian, the ANCA Executive Director, has published an article
in Asbarez.com, where he spoke about the position of the United States
on the Armenian Genocide. The article says, in part:
"It's time for a new American approach to the Armenian Genocide,
one that is as simple as it is sound: Progress and peace based upon
truth and justice.
American policy on the Armenian Genocide can be both principled
and practical.
Years of futile U.S. efforts to appease Turkey have failed to end
Ankara's blockade of Armenia and only hardened Ankara's denial of
truth and obstruction of justice for this crime.
This denial poisons Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after
wave of anti-Armenian intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia's
and Artsakh's security, and, of course, fuels regional tensions.
The future of this region - it's sustainable stability over the
long-term - cannot be built upon a foundation of lies. Justice is
good geopolitics.
It's time for the Obama-Biden Administration to reject Ankara's
gag-rule and proudly reaffirm our government's record of having
recognized the Armenian Genocide. Sadly, under foreign pressure,
President Obama has failed to reflect, much less reinforce, America's
standing acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide as a crime of
genocide.
After years of failed efforts to appease Ankara, it's time for
President Obama to honor his words, and for our government to live
up to America's promise of truth and justice.
It's time to stop outsourcing our nation's Armenian Genocide policy
to Turkey, and - in the interest of both regional stability and our
core values as a nation - to reclaim American leadership in support
of a truthful and just resolution of this crime."
Source: Panorama.am