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TREASURY SECRETARY JACOB J. LEW TO REPRESENT PRESIDENT OBAMA AT GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION IN ARMENIA
By MassisPost
Updated: April 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC -- President Obama has designated Treasury Secretary
Jacob J. Lew to lead a Presidential Delegation to Yerevan on April
24 to participate in Genocide Centennial commemorations according to
a statement issued today by the White House.
According to the statement, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications
Ben Rhodes hosted today representatives from Washington based
Armenian community organizations to discuss the upcoming centennial
commemoration. "Recalling the deep ties between the Armenian and
American peoples, they discussed the significance of this occasion
for honoring the 1.5 million lives extinguished during that horrific
period, and welcomed the principled advocacy of the Armenian American
community on behalf of justice. They pledged that the United States
will use the occasion to urge a full, frank, and just acknowledgement
of the facts that we believe is in the interest of all parties". The
statement read.
http://massispost.com/2015/04/treasury-secretary-jacob-j-lew-to-represent-president-obama-at-genocide-centennial-commemoration-in-armenia/
By MassisPost
Updated: April 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC -- President Obama has designated Treasury Secretary
Jacob J. Lew to lead a Presidential Delegation to Yerevan on April
24 to participate in Genocide Centennial commemorations according to
a statement issued today by the White House.
According to the statement, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications
Ben Rhodes hosted today representatives from Washington based
Armenian community organizations to discuss the upcoming centennial
commemoration. "Recalling the deep ties between the Armenian and
American peoples, they discussed the significance of this occasion
for honoring the 1.5 million lives extinguished during that horrific
period, and welcomed the principled advocacy of the Armenian American
community on behalf of justice. They pledged that the United States
will use the occasion to urge a full, frank, and just acknowledgement
of the facts that we believe is in the interest of all parties". The
statement read.
http://massispost.com/2015/04/treasury-secretary-jacob-j-lew-to-represent-president-obama-at-genocide-centennial-commemoration-in-armenia/