US DEMS PRESS ON WITH ARMENIA BILL

PRESS TV
Oct 15 2007
Iran

Despite Turkish furry, top US Democrats promise to press ahead with
a bill condemning the mass killing of Armenians as genocide.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemns the massacre.

"Genocide still exists, and we saw it in Rwanda; we see it now in
Darfur," she said on ABC television.

The White House and the Republicans oppose the resolution. "We
continue to strongly oppose this resolution which may do grave harm
to US-Turkish relations and to US interests in Europe and the Middle
East," said White House Spokesman Tony Fratto.

Turkey’s top general said military ties between US and its key NATO
ally won’t be the same if an Armenian genocide resolution passes in
the US Congress, a report said Sunday.

Gen. Yasar Buyukanit voiced regret that The House foreign affairs
committee last week labeled the World War I-era killings of Armenians
a genocide.