US EMBASSY DISAPPOINTED BY ANCA STATEMENTS
ArmRadio.am
15.03.2007 12:35
The US Embassy noted with deep disappointment the statement made in
Yerevan on March 13 by ANCA Executive Director Aram Hambarian.
"His remarks were a willful distortion of reality and have no place
in any serious discussion about policy differences. Mr. Hambarian’s
comments are particularly out of place in Yerevan, where the Government
of Armenia has already signaled its readiness to work with Ambassador
Hoagland. Neither Ambassador Hoagland nor the Administration has ever
denied the mass murders and forced exile of over 1.5 million Armenians
that occurred in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. During his
confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
June 28, 2006, Ambassador Hoagland specifically said, on the record,
"No one in the Administration has ever denied the events." He has
read broadly the history of the period. However, the Administration,
and therefore Ambassador-designate Hoagland, does not use the word
"genocide" to describe these events," says the statement of the
US Embassy.