Today, Azerbaijan
March 16 2007

Alleged Armenian genocide resolution can inflict significant damage
to US efforts to reconcile Turkey-Armenia dispute

16 March 2007 [14:17] – Today.Az

The text of the identical letter sent to the House of Representatives
by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary
Robert Gates in connection with Armenian ‘genocide’ resolution has
been published.

In the letters, Rice and Gates drew attention to the consequences of
French Parliament’s passing genocide bill that made it crime to deny
Armenian genocide.

"Turkey cut off all relations with France, including military sphere
and refused military contracts under discussion due to the adoption
of that bill. The resolution could inflict significant damage on the
US soldiers dislocated in the region and create problems for the
divisions deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and inflict significant
damage on US efforts to reconcile the long-standing disupute between
Turkey and Armenia," they said.

The appeals went to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
representatives John Boehner, leader of the House’s Republican
minority, and Tom Lantos, the Democrat who chairs the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs. APA

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