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CONGRESSIONAL HELLENIC CAUCUS CO-CHAIRS SEEK ADOPTION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TRUTH & JUSTICE RESOLUTION
16:12 11.09.2013
In yet another demonstration of the enduring and increasingly energized
Armenian-Hellenic partnership, U.S. Representatives Michael Bilirakis
(R-FL) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the Co-Chairs of the Congressional
Hellenic Caucus, are backing the adoption of the Armenian Genocide
Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.227), reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA).
"We join Armenian Americans across the country and with all of
our Hellenic American coalition partners in thanking Congressman
Bilirakis and Congresswoman Maloney for their leadership in support
of a truthful and just international resolution of Turkey's crime
of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and other Christian
nations," said Aram Hamparian, ANCA Executive Director.
"Greeks, Armenians, and all our fellow U.S. citizens who seek to
advance American ideals look forward to the day when our White House
will, at long last, end its complicity in Ankara's genocide denials
and begin the process of moving the Turkish society and state toward
the acceptance of their full moral and material responsibilities for
this crime."
Representatives Maloney and Bilirakis join as cosponsors with a broad
range of senior Congressional leaders, including many serving on key
foreign policy and appropriations panels, who have already lent their
support to this groundbreaking human rights measure. The bipartisan
resolution seeks improved Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey's
acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and a just international
resolution of this still unpunished crime.
Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam
Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) 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 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."
The resolution specifically references that "the Republic of Turkey,
rather than acknowledging and reckoning with painful elements of the
past, has escalated its international campaign of Armenian Genocide
denial, maintained its blockade of Armenia, and increased its pressure
on the small but growing Turkish civil society movement acknowledging
the Armenian Genocide and seeking justice for this systematic campaign
of destruction of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Pontians,
Syriacs, and other Christians upon their biblical-era homelands."
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/09/11/congressional-hellenic-caucus-co-chairs-seek-adoption-of-armenian-genocide-truth-justice-resolution/
16:12 11.09.2013
In yet another demonstration of the enduring and increasingly energized
Armenian-Hellenic partnership, U.S. Representatives Michael Bilirakis
(R-FL) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the Co-Chairs of the Congressional
Hellenic Caucus, are backing the adoption of the Armenian Genocide
Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.227), reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA).
"We join Armenian Americans across the country and with all of
our Hellenic American coalition partners in thanking Congressman
Bilirakis and Congresswoman Maloney for their leadership in support
of a truthful and just international resolution of Turkey's crime
of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and other Christian
nations," said Aram Hamparian, ANCA Executive Director.
"Greeks, Armenians, and all our fellow U.S. citizens who seek to
advance American ideals look forward to the day when our White House
will, at long last, end its complicity in Ankara's genocide denials
and begin the process of moving the Turkish society and state toward
the acceptance of their full moral and material responsibilities for
this crime."
Representatives Maloney and Bilirakis join as cosponsors with a broad
range of senior Congressional leaders, including many serving on key
foreign policy and appropriations panels, who have already lent their
support to this groundbreaking human rights measure. The bipartisan
resolution seeks improved Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey's
acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and a just international
resolution of this still unpunished crime.
Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam
Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) 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 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."
The resolution specifically references that "the Republic of Turkey,
rather than acknowledging and reckoning with painful elements of the
past, has escalated its international campaign of Armenian Genocide
denial, maintained its blockade of Armenia, and increased its pressure
on the small but growing Turkish civil society movement acknowledging
the Armenian Genocide and seeking justice for this systematic campaign
of destruction of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Pontians,
Syriacs, and other Christians upon their biblical-era homelands."
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/09/11/congressional-hellenic-caucus-co-chairs-seek-adoption-of-armenian-genocide-truth-justice-resolution/