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SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ADOPTS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez speaks
at Wednesday's Genocide commemoration on Capitol Hill
Chairman Menendez spearheads successful campaign for truth over strong
opposition from White House; Turkish Government
WASHINGTON--For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S.
Senate committee Thursday adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution,
calling upon the Senate to commemorate this crime and encouraging
the President to ensure that America's foreign policy reflects
and reinforces the lessons, documented in the U.S. record, of the
still-unpunished genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee
of America.
"Today's vote affirms America's commitment to truth, deals a serious
setback to Turkey's campaign of genocide denial, and sends a clear
message to President Obama that he must end his Administration's
complicity in Ankara's cover-up of this crime," said Aram Hamparian,
Executive Director of the ANCA. "We thank Chairman Menendez for his
powerful leadership and express our thanks to each of the Senators
who cast their votes for this human rights measure."
With a vote of 12 to 5, the Committee voted to condemn and commemorate
the Armenian Genocide.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
spearheaded the effort to have this influential foreign policy panel
speak clearly regarding the Ottoman Turkish Government's centrally
planned and systematically carried out campaign of genocide from
1915-1923, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million men,
women and children.
Senator Menendez announced the vote at the Armenian Genocide Observance
on Capitol Hill yesterday evening, where he told his colleagues and
attendees, "To me, to all men and women of good will, I would think
there is a simple statement - genocide is genocide, and you cannot
call it anything else but that and you need to have a recognition
of that. Next year when we mark a century - a hundred years ago that
the Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turkey, it seems to me that with
most of the survivors gone - but with a few left - it is incredibly
important for us to lead globally at this time."
http://asbarez.com/121756/senate-foreign-relations-committee-adopts-armenian-genocide-resolution/
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez speaks
at Wednesday's Genocide commemoration on Capitol Hill
Chairman Menendez spearheads successful campaign for truth over strong
opposition from White House; Turkish Government
WASHINGTON--For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S.
Senate committee Thursday adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution,
calling upon the Senate to commemorate this crime and encouraging
the President to ensure that America's foreign policy reflects
and reinforces the lessons, documented in the U.S. record, of the
still-unpunished genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee
of America.
"Today's vote affirms America's commitment to truth, deals a serious
setback to Turkey's campaign of genocide denial, and sends a clear
message to President Obama that he must end his Administration's
complicity in Ankara's cover-up of this crime," said Aram Hamparian,
Executive Director of the ANCA. "We thank Chairman Menendez for his
powerful leadership and express our thanks to each of the Senators
who cast their votes for this human rights measure."
With a vote of 12 to 5, the Committee voted to condemn and commemorate
the Armenian Genocide.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
spearheaded the effort to have this influential foreign policy panel
speak clearly regarding the Ottoman Turkish Government's centrally
planned and systematically carried out campaign of genocide from
1915-1923, which resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million men,
women and children.
Senator Menendez announced the vote at the Armenian Genocide Observance
on Capitol Hill yesterday evening, where he told his colleagues and
attendees, "To me, to all men and women of good will, I would think
there is a simple statement - genocide is genocide, and you cannot
call it anything else but that and you need to have a recognition
of that. Next year when we mark a century - a hundred years ago that
the Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turkey, it seems to me that with
most of the survivors gone - but with a few left - it is incredibly
important for us to lead globally at this time."
http://asbarez.com/121756/senate-foreign-relations-committee-adopts-armenian-genocide-resolution/