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  • U.S. Envoy, Turkey's AKP Rep. Discuss Armenian Genocide Resolution

    U.S. ENVOY, TURKEY'S AKP REP. DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

    April 14, 2014 - 19:16 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone
    and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Head Mehmet Ali Sahin
    discussed the U.S. Senate committee's adopting of the Armenian Genocide
    Resolution, TRT Haber said.

    The latest developments in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Cyprus, Palestine,
    Israel, Ukraine, and Turkey-U.S. relations were also on the meeting
    agenda.

    "'We both agreed on the importance of keeping Turkish-American
    relations in a high level," Ricciardone told journalists after the
    meeting.

    For the first time in nearly a quarter century, a U.S. Senate committee
    on April 10, 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.

    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.

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