PanARMENIAN.Net

H.Res.106 will entail condemnation and recognition of
Armenian Genocide in many states
12.10.2007 14:11 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ `Actions held in Turkey are initiated by the Turkish
Workers’ Party led by Dogu Perincek, who is using the occasion to gain
political weight. However, Turkey will face more serious trouble when
the House of Representatives announces the date of vote on the
Armenian Genocide Resolution. Presently, everything depends on
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who should choose a politically favorable date
for the vote,’ Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the RA
Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruben Safrastyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter.

Turkish government may take drastic steps if the House passes
H.Res.106, according to him.

`Adoption of the resolution will have a stupendous effect. For the
first time a power like the United States stands close to name mass
killings in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 Genocide. The whole scope of
the Turkish-American relations will be endangered. The Gul-Erdogan
government will take up a foreign policy less dependent on the
U.S. and tending to Middle East,’ he said.

As to Armenia’s interests, Prof. Safrastyan said, adoption of the
resolution will have a political importance. `Even though it’s just
`the opinion of the House’, it will entail condemnation and
recognition of the Armenian Genocide in many states. There is also
another important circumstance – the world comes to know about the
`Armenian factor’ in politics with the aid of a superpower, the United
States. This fact brings us political dividends,’ he underscored.