RICE SENDS WARNING TO CONGRESS OVER ARMENIAN RESOLUTION

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
March 14 2007

The letter warned that if passed, the resolution will harm Turkish-US
relations.

Guncelleme: 14:11 TSÝ 14 Mart 2007 CarþambaWASHINGTON – US Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defence Robert Gates
have warned that a draft resolution to be considered by the House
of Representatives on so-called Armenian genocide would result in
serious damage to relations with Turkey if passed.

The warning, which came in a letter sent to Speaker of House of
Representatives Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner from the Republican Party,
and Tom Lantos, chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee, was signed by both Rice and Gates.

Reportedly, the letter said that if the draft resolution was passed
by the House of Representatives, Turkish-US ties would be seriously
damaged and this would harm national interests of the US.

Though originally submitted in January, the draft resolution has
yet to be put on the House’s schedule for debate. A similar draft
resolution is expected to be tabled with the US Senate this week.

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