US DOES NOT WANT EXACERBATION OF RELATIONS WITH TURKEY

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.08.2006 15:28 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Efforts by the White House to win quick approval
for its new ambassador to Armenia have hit a snag after a bipartisan
group of senators, who are members of Foreign Relations Committee,
moved to force the US government’s formal recognition that Turkey
committed the Armenian Genocide during World War I," writes commentator
of Agence France-Presse (AFP). AFP reminds that the move came as key
committee members expressed open consternation over the mysterious
"resignation" of the current US Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans
— after less than two years on the job. The cause of his premature
recall was his statement that he considers "events in Ottoman Turkey
in 1915 a Genocide."

In the opinion of the AFP commentator, the US does not want
exacerbation of relations with Turkey, the only Muslim NATO
ally. Turkey is already upset over cross-border raids by Kurdish
separatist rebels based in US-occupied Iraq, and is demanding resolute
action by the United States to halt the incursions. This is why the
term "Armenian Genocide" is not used by official Washington, the AFP
commentator supposes.