PanARMENIAN.Net

Richard Hoagland cannot say he recognizes Armenian Genocide
26.01.2007 18:12 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The U.S. has a serious attitude
about the Armenian Genocide issue but the foreign
policy doesn’t imply use of the term `genocide’ for
describing the tragedy of the Armenian people in 1915,
Arpi Vartanian, the Armenian Assembly of America
Regional Director for Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh
said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. In her
words, any U.S. ambassador with uttering the words
‘Armenian Genocide’ would stand against the foreign
policy and face immediate recall, as it happened with
John Evans. `Richard Hoagland cannot say he recognizes
the Armenian Genocide by this very reason. However, in
case the U.S. foreign policy changes and the U.S.
comes to recognize the Armenian Genocide, ambassadors
including the one to Turkey will be obliged to
recognize it. Our goal is to achieve changes in the
foreign policy and we are cooperating with the
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) on the
issue,’ Ms. Vartanian said.

She also said that the Armenian Genocide resolution to
be submitted to the Congress January 30 is an attempt
to change the U.S. foreign line. `The day of Holocaust
will be marked throughout the globe January 27, so I
do not understand why the day of the Armenian Genocide
should not be marked on April 24. If a correct
assessment were timely given to the tragedy of 1915 it
could have prevented the Holocaust and the genocides
in Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur. We press not only for
the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide
but also for prevention of any genocide in any spot of
the world,’ she underscored.