TURKISH LOBBYING GROUPS IN USA AGAIN FAILED IN THEIR ANTI-GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.07.2007 14:00 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On July 18 Turkey’s multi-million dollar lobbyist
Bob Livingston posted an eight-minute diatribe on the Capitol Hill
Broadcasting Network website, which denies the Armenian Genocide. This
video is an effort to block congressional adoption of the H.Res.106
/ S.Res.106, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)
reports. Less than twelve hours after Bob Livingston’s genocide denial
video was posted, the ANCA issued a point by point video rebuttal,
which was distributed widely to congressional offices and policy
makers throughout Washington, DC. Also in response to the Livingston
attack, Armenian Genocide Resolution lead advocates, Representatives
Adam Schiff, George Radanovich, Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg
cosigned a July 18th letter to congressional colleagues discrediting
Livingston’s denialist claims. The letter reads as follows, "For the
past seven years Mr. Livingston has been a paid lobbyist for Turkey,
which has spent millions of dollars denying what the world knows to
be true – that in the first decades of the last century a horrible
genocide was committed against the Armenian people. The factual
evidence supporting the Armenian Genocide is vast, and no effort to
deny these facts – no matter the source of the denial – will ever
change history." The letter went on to urge House members to join
over 220 of their colleagues in cosponsoring H.Res.106.