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ANCA STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S CONTINUED RETREAT FROM HIS PLEDGE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
8:00 24/04/2014 Â" SOCIETY
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram
Hamparian issued the following statement regarding President Obama's
April 24th "Armenian Remembrance Day" message, which once against
stops short of properly characterizing the crime as 'genocide.'
"President Obama continues to outsource his policy on the Armenian
Genocide, effectively granting Turkey a veto over America's response
to this crime against humanity."
"It's a sad spectacle to see our President, who came into office having
promised to recognize the Armenian Genocide, reduced to enforcing
a foreign government's gag-rule on what our country can say about a
genocide so very thoroughly documented in our own nation's archives."
"The fact remains that any durable improvement in Armenian-Turkish
relations will require that Ankara end its denials, accept its
moral and material responsibilities, and agree to a truthful and
just international resolution of this still unpunished crime against
all humanity."
"While we do note that the President chose to join in today's national
remembrance, we remain profoundly disappointed that he has, once again,
retreated from his own promises and fallen short of the principled
stand taken by previous presidents. For our part, we remain committed
to aligning U.S. policy on the Armenian Genocide - and all genocides -
with the core values and humanitarian spirit of the American people."
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/04/24/anca-statement/
From: Baghdasarian
8:00 24/04/2014 Â" SOCIETY
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram
Hamparian issued the following statement regarding President Obama's
April 24th "Armenian Remembrance Day" message, which once against
stops short of properly characterizing the crime as 'genocide.'
"President Obama continues to outsource his policy on the Armenian
Genocide, effectively granting Turkey a veto over America's response
to this crime against humanity."
"It's a sad spectacle to see our President, who came into office having
promised to recognize the Armenian Genocide, reduced to enforcing
a foreign government's gag-rule on what our country can say about a
genocide so very thoroughly documented in our own nation's archives."
"The fact remains that any durable improvement in Armenian-Turkish
relations will require that Ankara end its denials, accept its
moral and material responsibilities, and agree to a truthful and
just international resolution of this still unpunished crime against
all humanity."
"While we do note that the President chose to join in today's national
remembrance, we remain profoundly disappointed that he has, once again,
retreated from his own promises and fallen short of the principled
stand taken by previous presidents. For our part, we remain committed
to aligning U.S. policy on the Armenian Genocide - and all genocides -
with the core values and humanitarian spirit of the American people."
http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/04/24/anca-statement/
From: Baghdasarian