ANCA: DOES ARMENIA NEED AMBASSADOR DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE?

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.11.2006 13:11 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The appointment of Richard Hoagland Ambassador to
Armenia is still in the air. A diplomat should mind his expressions
when speaking of a country where he is going to serve as an
Ambassador, ANCA Communications Director Elizabeth Chouldjian told
a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter in Washington. "Why does Armenia need
an Ambassador, who surpassed the President and now speaks of the
‘so-called Genocide’ and says Armenians were treated well in the
Ottoman Empire. By the way, the President himself says it was a
tragedy," she remarked adding that the State Department would never
send an Ambassador denying the Holocaust to Israel. Meanwhile,
according to a source in the U.S. Department of State, Richard
Hoagland’s designation will be approved. "This is our nomination and
it should be approved. Although the hearings will resume in the newly
elected Senate late November there will be no problem, I suppose. At
long last the President can appoint the Ambassador bypassing the
Senate. History records such cases," the source said adding that John
Evans’ activities were appreciated highly by the State Department and
it’s the President who decides on the terms of Ambassadors’ service.