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LA CITY COUNCIL BILL URGES OBAMA TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
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LA City Council Bill Urges Obama to Recognize Armenian Genocide
Los Angeles City Council
LOS ANGELES--Los Angeles City Councilmembers on Wednesday introduced
a measure urging President Obama to recognize the Armenian Genocide
and voicing LA's support for H-Res 154, the Armenian Genocide Truth
and Justice resolution introduced in Congress last week.
City Councilmember Paul Krekorian and Council President Herb Wesson,
were joined by councilmembers Mitch O'Farrell and Paul Koretz
co-presented the resolution.
The City Council Resolution calls on President Obama to acknowledge
the Armenian Genocide and urge the government of Turkey to acknowledge
the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian Genocide.
The item will now go to the Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental
Affairs Committee. Once the Committee hears the item, it will be
sent to the full Council for a vote, and will be placed in the City's
2015-2016 Federal Legislative Program.
Below is the text of the proposed resolution.
WHEREAS, any official position of the City of Los Angeles with respect
to legislation, rules, regulations or policies proposed to or pending
before a local, state, or federal governmental body or agency must
have first been adopted in the form of a Resolution by the City
Council with the concurrence of the Mayor; and
WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide began on April 24, 1915, with the arrest
by Ottoman Turkish officials of key Armenian intellectual, political
and religious leaders, followed by the murder and deportation of men,
women and children --- a pattern that has been repeated over and over
again in the Holocaust, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in southern Sudan
and in all other genocides since the Armenian Genocide; and
WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide was conceived and carried out by
Ottoman Turkey from 1915 to 1923, resulting in the deportation of
nearly 2,000,000 Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women, and children
were killed, and 500,000 survivors were expelled from their homes,
effectively destroying the 3,000 year presence of Armenians in much
of their historic homeland; and
WHEREAS, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the
horrific series of events that left millions of Armenians dead and
displaced; and WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide is widely recognized
by historians and genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th
Century, and as the harbinger of all genocides that would follow; and
WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide is clearly documented with overwhelming
evidence in the national archives of Austria, France, Germany, Great
Britain, Russia, Turkey the United States, the Vatican and many other
countries, and this vast body of evidence attests to the same facts,
the same events, and the same consequences; and
WHEREAS, Los Angeles is home to one of the largest Armenian communities
in the world, and one of the largest populations of Genocide survivors
and their descendants; and WHEREAS, it is vital that the Government
of the United States properly recognize the Armenian Genocide, not
just because of the moral implications, but because it can help to
prevent future atrocities from occurring; and
WHEREAS, the Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.154), introduced
and spearheaded in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressmen
Adam Schiff (D-CA), Robert J. Dold (R-IL), David Valadao (R-CA),
and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), offers a new approach to U.S. efforts to
foster Armenian-Turkish relations which are equitable, constructive,
stable, and durable; and
WHEREAS, the Resolution calls on President Barack Obama to stand by
the statement, which he made before entering office, that "the Armenian
Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view,
but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body
of historical evidence"; and
WHEREAS, the Resolution calls on the Obama Administration to press
Turkey for full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences
of the Arri1enian Genocide;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, with the concurrence of the Mayor,
that by the adoption of this Resolution, the City of Los Angeles
hereby includes in its 2015-2016 Federal Legislative Program support
for the Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.154).
Co-Presented by: PAUL KREKORIAN, 2nd District HERB WSSON, 10th District
MITCH O'FARRELL 13th District PAUL KORETZ, 5th District
From: A. Papazian
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
http://asbarez.com/133409/la-city-council-bill-urges-obama-to-recognize-armenian-genocide/
LA City Council Bill Urges Obama to Recognize Armenian Genocide
Los Angeles City Council
LOS ANGELES--Los Angeles City Councilmembers on Wednesday introduced
a measure urging President Obama to recognize the Armenian Genocide
and voicing LA's support for H-Res 154, the Armenian Genocide Truth
and Justice resolution introduced in Congress last week.
City Councilmember Paul Krekorian and Council President Herb Wesson,
were joined by councilmembers Mitch O'Farrell and Paul Koretz
co-presented the resolution.
The City Council Resolution calls on President Obama to acknowledge
the Armenian Genocide and urge the government of Turkey to acknowledge
the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian Genocide.
The item will now go to the Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental
Affairs Committee. Once the Committee hears the item, it will be
sent to the full Council for a vote, and will be placed in the City's
2015-2016 Federal Legislative Program.
Below is the text of the proposed resolution.
WHEREAS, any official position of the City of Los Angeles with respect
to legislation, rules, regulations or policies proposed to or pending
before a local, state, or federal governmental body or agency must
have first been adopted in the form of a Resolution by the City
Council with the concurrence of the Mayor; and
WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide began on April 24, 1915, with the arrest
by Ottoman Turkish officials of key Armenian intellectual, political
and religious leaders, followed by the murder and deportation of men,
women and children --- a pattern that has been repeated over and over
again in the Holocaust, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in southern Sudan
and in all other genocides since the Armenian Genocide; and
WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide was conceived and carried out by
Ottoman Turkey from 1915 to 1923, resulting in the deportation of
nearly 2,000,000 Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women, and children
were killed, and 500,000 survivors were expelled from their homes,
effectively destroying the 3,000 year presence of Armenians in much
of their historic homeland; and
WHEREAS, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the
horrific series of events that left millions of Armenians dead and
displaced; and WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide is widely recognized
by historians and genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th
Century, and as the harbinger of all genocides that would follow; and
WHEREAS, the Armenian Genocide is clearly documented with overwhelming
evidence in the national archives of Austria, France, Germany, Great
Britain, Russia, Turkey the United States, the Vatican and many other
countries, and this vast body of evidence attests to the same facts,
the same events, and the same consequences; and
WHEREAS, Los Angeles is home to one of the largest Armenian communities
in the world, and one of the largest populations of Genocide survivors
and their descendants; and WHEREAS, it is vital that the Government
of the United States properly recognize the Armenian Genocide, not
just because of the moral implications, but because it can help to
prevent future atrocities from occurring; and
WHEREAS, the Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.154), introduced
and spearheaded in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressmen
Adam Schiff (D-CA), Robert J. Dold (R-IL), David Valadao (R-CA),
and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), offers a new approach to U.S. efforts to
foster Armenian-Turkish relations which are equitable, constructive,
stable, and durable; and
WHEREAS, the Resolution calls on President Barack Obama to stand by
the statement, which he made before entering office, that "the Armenian
Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view,
but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body
of historical evidence"; and
WHEREAS, the Resolution calls on the Obama Administration to press
Turkey for full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences
of the Arri1enian Genocide;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, with the concurrence of the Mayor,
that by the adoption of this Resolution, the City of Los Angeles
hereby includes in its 2015-2016 Federal Legislative Program support
for the Truth and Justice Resolution (H.Res.154).
Co-Presented by: PAUL KREKORIAN, 2nd District HERB WSSON, 10th District
MITCH O'FARRELL 13th District PAUL KORETZ, 5th District
From: A. Papazian