COLEMAN OPPOSED TO NOMINEE FOR ARMENIA AMBASSADORSHIP

The Frontrunner
August 3, 2006 Thursday

The AP (8/3, Frommer) reports, "A Republican senator is planning
to vote against President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to Armenia
because the nominee has refused to refer to the deaths of 1.5 million
Armenians as genocide. ‘I continue to be troubled by our policy that
refuses to recognize what was a historical reality,’ Minnesota Sen.

Norm Coleman said in a telephone interview Wednesday." Turkey
"strongly objects to the use of the term, and U.S. policymakers are
wary of antagonizing an important strategic NATO ally." On Tuesday,
"the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on which Coleman serves,
postponed a vote on Richard E. Hoagland’s nomination until next month."