NO ‘GENOCIDE’ IN ARMENIA

The Moscow Times, Russia
June 30 2006

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators failed to persuade Richard Hoagland,
the nominee for the post of U.S. ambassador to Armenia, to describe
the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians last century as "genocide."

"I have not received any kind of written instruction about this,"
Hoagland said Wednesday. "I simply have studied the president’s
policy. I’ve studied the background papers on the policy. And my
responsibility is to support the president." The administration of
U.S President George W. Bush does not question that Turkish troops
in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire killed or drove from their
homes 1.5 million Armenians starting in 1915.