Turkey “uneasy” about US parliamentarians’ resolutions

Anatolia news agency
16 Sep 05

ANKARA

Turkey has stated that it felt uneasy over adoption of two resolutions
acknowledging the so-called Armenian genocide by the Committee on
International Relations of the US House of Representatives.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry stated on Friday [16 September] that the
US acting assistant state secretary for legislative affairs, Matthew
Reynolds, sent a letter the day before to the Committee on
International Relations chairman, Henry Hyde, stressing Turkey’s
importance for the United States.

“Turkey welcomed the letter which stated that the US administration
was against the adoption of these resolutions and an Armenian
resolution which is brought onto agenda of the House of
Representatives general assembly can harm Turkey-US relations,” noted
the ministry.

“On the other hand, Turkey believes that in the next period US
congressmen will show the responsibility appropriate to Turkish-US
relations. Turkey also expects that these resolutions would remain in
committee level and would not be submitted to the general assembly,”
said Turkish Foreign Ministry.