FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO RA JOHN EVANS DWELLS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AGAIN
By Aghavni Haroutiunian
AZG Armenian Daily
11/01/2007
In the interview to "The Los Angeles Times" newspaper, John Evans,
former US Ambassador to Armenia, who completed his mission last year,
once again touched upon the issue of the Armenian Genocide. In
particular, he said that he was quite aware of using the term
"genocide" last year. Last year, in September, in the course of some of
his abroad visits, Evans said in an interview that people should not
avoid telling the truth about certain phenomenon and events. Last
month, the former Ambassador who officially left the US State
Department as well, confirmed the information spread by the Armenian
sources, according to which, he would be removed from the diplomatic
mission, and that was obvious already in the summer of 2005. It’s
worth mentioning that a few month earlier, Evans called the massacre
that took place in the Ottoman Empire as the Armenian genocide.
As for the appointment of Richard Hoagland, new candidate for
the position of the US Ambassador to Armenia, the 97 % of the
American-Armenians are against his candidacy.