BUSH AGAIN AVOIDED SAYING "GENOCIDE"
AZG Armenian Daily
27/04/2007
As it was expected, US President George W Bush once again avoided
saying "Genocide" in his yearly speech on April 24 dedicated to the
massacres of Armenians in Ottoman turkey. This year the President
used every expression in English suitable for description of such a
terrible crime: "one of the biggest tragedies in the 20th century",
"victims of mass deportation and massacre", etc, etc. Head of ANCA
Hrayr Hovnanian, expressing his disappointment about this fact, also
noted that Bush did not mention the name of Hrant Dink in his speech,
in despite of the demands of the Senate to revise the official policy
of the United States on the Armenian Genocide.
On the occasion of April 24 Prime Minister of Canada Stefan Harper
also made a statement, where the word "genocide" was used only as a
quote from a last year resolution of the Parliament of Canada.