Hürriyet, Turkey
March 8 2007

Armenian groups: White House pressure forced postponement of Dink
resolution

Armenian lobby groups in the US capital are indicating that pressure
from the White House resulted in the decision by the US Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations to postpone voting on a resolution
condemning the murder of journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul.

Republican Senator Richard Lugar, a prominent member of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, had made public his objections to the
text of the resolution. The decision to postpone by the Committee
came after Lugar’s objections. The White House’s official objection
to this non-binding resolution is based on the references to
"genocide" included in the text.