SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR PETITIONS SPEAKER PELOSI TO PASS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

ArmRadio.am
22.06.2007 10:40

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently sent a letter to Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi urging her to support H. Res. 106, the Armenian
Genocide Resolution. Newsom, whose city falls into Pelosi’s eighth
congressional district, expressed his utmost support of the Armenian
Genocide Resolution, reports the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).

In his correspondence to Speaker Pelosi, Newsom states, "I write this
letter in respect to House Resolution 106, which would officially
place the US House of Representatives as recognizing the Armenian
Genocide of 1915.

Along with San Francisco’s large and active Armenian- American
community, it is an honor to add my name to the growing number of
supporters to House Resolution 106."

Mayor Newsom also referred to the assassination of Hrant Dink as
being "silenced as he advocated for official Turkish recognition
of the Armenian Genocide." Mayor Newsom stated in his letter that,
"[he] can find no better way to honor the memory of Mr. Dink than to
ask that the House of Representatives pass this resolution."

Mayor Newsom was appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in
1997, representing District 2. He was elected Mayor of San Francisco in
2004 and has always been in support of the Armenian-American Community.