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    U.S. SENATORS CALL ON OBAMA TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    By Contributor on April 2, 2015

    Bipartisan Letter Presses President to Take a Principled Stand

    WASHINGTON--U.S. Senators--acting on a bipartisan basis--are calling
    upon President Barack Obama, to reaffirm the Armenian Genocide, this
    April, as a clear case of genocide, reported the Armenian National
    Committee of America (ANCA).

    Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) led the
    bipartisan Senate effort calling on President Obama to recognize the
    Armenian Genocide

    In a letter sent last week to the White House, fifteen Senators
    underscored the urgent need--on the eve of the Armenian Genocide
    Centennial--to properly honor the victims of this crime and underscore
    America's principled stand against all genocides, past, present,
    and future.

    "We thank Senators Menendez and Gardner and all their colleagues who
    joined with them, on a bipartisan basis, in encouraging President
    Obama to speak openly and honestly about the Armenian Genocide
    during this April's Centennial observance of this crime against
    humanity," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "As we mark
    the Centennial--with the world's attention turning to President
    Obama's still unmet pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide--our
    government should, once and forever, reject shameless Ankara's efforts
    to enforce a gag-rule on America. Very simply, no nation deserves a
    'veto' against America's defense of human rights."

    The Senate letter, led by Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Senator
    Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), notes that: "While the United States Congress
    has a long history of support for the victims and the memory of the
    Armenian Genocide, the Administration has not formally recognized
    the atrocities that were perpetrated against the Armenians as
    'genocide'" The Senate signatories stressed that a principled stand
    by the president would "send a powerful signal to the international
    community that this Administration is committed to recognizing the
    Armenian Genocide, to upholding the ideals of tolerance and universal
    human rights upon which our country was founded, and to preventing
    similar atrocities from ever happening again."

    Senate signatories of the Armenian Genocide letter to Obama include
    Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Dianne
    Feinstein (D-Calif.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Dean Heller (R-Nev.),
    Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.),
    Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.),
    Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Elizabeth Warren
    (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

    A separate U.S. House letter, spearheaded by Armenian Caucus
    Co-Chairmen Robert Dold (R-Ill.) and Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), is also
    being sent to Obama. Details to follow.

    The complete text of the Senate Letter is available at:

    http://www.anca.org/assets/pdf/misc/032715_Senate_Genocide_Letter.pdf

    http://armenianweekly.com/2015/04/02/u-s-senators-call-on-obama/

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