RESOLUTION ON RECOGNIZING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ALREADY APPROVED BY 161 CONGRESSMEN

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.02.2007 15:27 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 161 congressmen have already undersigned the 106th
resolution of U.S. Congress on recognizing the Armenian Genocide,
stated in Yerevan Arpi Vartanian, the AAA (Armenian Assembly of
America) Regional Director for Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. In her
words, a great support is being provided by the Speaker of the House
of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.

"Pelosi has always spoken in favor of recognizing the Armenian
Genocide in 1915 by the United States and her stance on this issue is
unchanged," Vartanian stressed. Alongside, the AAA Regional Director
underlined that recently the topic of genocide is being actively
discussed in U.S. "The American society wants to know what in fact
has happened in Darfur, Cambodia and Rwanda. And just now Armenian
organizations must tell about the Armenian Genocide as much as
possible, as the first genocide of the 20th century left unpunished,
because of which other crimes against humanity took place," said
Arpi Vartanian.

She also underscored, a lot of leading American newspapers have also
changed their viewpoint on the Armenian Genocide issue. "If earlier
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe wrote "the
so called Armenian Genocide", "Armenian Genocide", now they write
it without inverted commas. And Armenian Lobby organizations have
contributed to it much," Vartanian said.