ARMENIAN BILL MIGHT BE PASSED IN NEXT US CONGRESS
By Cihan News Agency
Zaman, Turkey
Nov 4 2006
An Armenian bill that will recognize the killings of Armenians during
World War I as genocide is likely to be passed in the U.S. House of
Representatives, said Clyde Wilcox of Georgetown University.
Democrats are expected to have the majority in the in the upcoming
congressional elections in the United States, which are scheduled to
be held next Tuesday.
Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown, stated that
Democrats had a chance to take Congress in the elections.
Since the prospective chairman of the House of Representatives pledged
to vote on an Armenian bill, it is likely that such a bill would be
passed in the House, Wilcox told the Turkish press in Ankara, where
he arrived at the invitation of the American Embassy.
Wilcox said even if the House of Representatives adopted a bill
recognizing the so-called the Armenian genocide; America’s foreign
policy would not change. He added that the bill was less likely to
be passed in the U.S. Senate.
Professor Wilcox also noted that the bills passed in the House were
not binding; therefore, they would not reflect the U.S. government’s
polices and opinions