LEAVES OR NOT…

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05:32 pm 16 March, 2006

Today in the USA Embassy in Armenia the journalists tried to find out
whether the rumors about George Avans’ already handing the documents
of his return to Robert Kocharyan correspond to the reality. Does it
mean that the USA president George Bush’s policy contradicts to the
use of the word “genocide?”

The question made Mr. Avans get irritated. “I serve the USA president,
that’s all,” he said. The Vice Secretary of the State Department Daniel
Fried came to help him. “The position of the USA Administration is
clear. Every year George Bush makes announcements and he considers the
latest actions against the Armenians in the territory of the Osmanian
Empire a real tragedy. Such announcements will also be heard this
year. I have been working with the Ambassador Evans for 20 years and
we shall go on our work while he is in Armenia.”