THE TURKISH LOBBY HAS UNLEASHED A FIERCE WAR AGAINST THE RESOLUTION ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
Analytical Department
02.10.2007 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It should be mentioned that Madeleine Albright,
James Baker, Warren Christopher, Lawrence Eagleburger, Alexander Haig,
Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Georges Shultz have addressed
a letter to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy
Pelosi, where they had tried to convince her not to put Resolution
N 106 about the Armenian Genocide to the vote. The retired diplomats
express their worry, saying that "the adoption of the Resolution may
endanger the US national security in the region including the troops
in Iraq and Afghanistan and will upset the efforts of normalizing
the Armenian-Turkish relations." The content of the letter makes it
clear that the policy adopted by the US State Department is obviously
pro-Turkish and this indeed proceeds from the point of view of
national security, since besides Israel and Turkey the USA has no
other strategic allies in the Middle East. Most probably it’s the
very moment when the House of Representatives will receive a call from
the White House and will "be ask" to postpone the vote. This is what
happened at the time of Bill Clinton, when following the advice of the
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the House of Representatives
postponed the voting for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
According to the ANCA Executive Director Aram Hambaryan, the US
Administration doesn’t have enough strength to put an end to a number
of genocides – Cambodia, Rwanda, and Dartmouth. "We, Americans are
particularly worried with the fact that the warnings for the Congress
carry sense of fear towards Turkey and take advantage of our national
conscience for the sake of foreign government," he said. In its turn
the Armenian Assembly of America also expresses its disagreement
with the "diplomats’ unreasonable letter", calling it inconsequent
from the point of view of American values. "How many excuses should
be thought of to avoid the recognition of the truth?
Former State Secretaries couldn’t overcome Turkey’s refusal to dispose
the corridor in Northern Iraq to the American troops, which led to
the loss of American soldiers," was mentioned in the statement in AAA.
In fact American former diplomats shade doubt upon the principles of
human rights, i.e. they do not appreciate the values their country is
based on. As a matter of fact the words about "morals" and "national
interests" are rarely compatible.
The official Yerevan didn’t stay away either, for the given issue
doesn’t touch upon the problem of Armenian-American or American-Turkish
relations, but the security of Armenia. "I got to know the letter
of the US former State Secretaries addressed to the Speaker of
the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi with resentment. The
letter called upon upsetting the voting of Resolution N 106 about
the Armenian Genocide," said the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vartan Oskanyan. According to him it is indeed sad that eight rather
skillful diplomats give way to the Turkish pressure. "There are a lot
of questions mentioned in the letter not to agree with, especially
in the sense of the negative impact that the Resolution may have. I
will only bring forward the untrue statement which says that "the
Resolution will upset the efforts of creating a healthy atmosphere
between Armenia and Turkey." I have to mention it with a great regret
that there is no process, which stimulates any healthy relationship
between Armenia and Turkey. Expressing worry for non-existent processes
is a feigned position," emphasized Oskanyan.