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Rice: Armenian Genocide Resolution ‘Problematic’

RICE: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION ‘PROBLEMATIC’

ABC News
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Oct 10 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
warned on Wednesday that a congressional resolution calling the
1915 massacres of Armenians genocide would be "very problematic"
for U.S. efforts in the Middle East.

The resolution to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives
later in the day would be "very destabilizing to our efforts in Iraq
and Afghanistan because Turkey, as an important strategic ally, is
very critical in supporting the efforts that we are making in these
crucial areas," Rice said at the White House.

Photo: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) speaks as Secretary
of Defense Robert Gates (L) listens during a statement to the media
regarding a House resolution that would label the mass killings
of ethnic Armenians as genocide at the White House in Washington,
DC, 10 October 2007. Rice said Wednesday a congressional bid to
label the Ottoman massacre of Armenians a "genocide" would be "very
problematic" for ties with Turkey and Middle East peace. Rice said
she sympathized with the World War I plight of the Armenians, as the
House of Representatives prepared to debate a resolution that would
describe mass killings under the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." (Saul
Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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