Radio Free Europe, Czech Rep.
Aug 4 2007

White House Withdraws Nominee For Armenia Envoy

August 4, 2007 — The Bush administration has withdrawn its nominee
to be the U.S. ambassador to Armenia.

Career diplomat Richard Hoagland’s nomination had previously been
blocked by Democratic Party members of the Senate over Hoagland’s
refusal to describe the World War I-era killings of Armenians as
"genocide."

Turkey, a NATO member and ally of the United States, rejects that up
to 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in a planned genocide during
the Ottoman Empire.