REP. SCHIFF: TURKEY ARGUES IT SUCCEEDED IN GENOCIDE DENIAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
26.10.2007 18:24 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "I think the Turkish lobby has regrettably earned
their money. They were successful in a campaign that was persuasion
and coercion.
Unfortunately it was aided and abetted by our own State Department,"
said Rep. Adam Schiff, the leading author of the Armenian Genocide
resolution.
Schiff said it is hard to say when he will try again.
"We want to make sure that when the measure is brought to the floor
we’re confident the votes are there," he said. "I think the worse thing
would be that you take it up and you’re not successful, and Turkey
argues that it’s a denial of the genocide," he said, The Associated
Press reports.
The four leading Democratic sponsors of the Armenian Genocide
Resolution (H.Res.106) have called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to
adopt a revised schedule for the consideration of this human rights
legislation by the House of Representatives, reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA).
In a letter sent to Speaker Pelosi, lead author Adam Schiff (D-CA),
Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ), and
Representatives Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) stressed
that, in asking for this delay, "we believe that a large majority of
our colleagues want to support a resolution recognizing the genocide on
the House floor and that they will do so, provided the timing is more
favorable." The letter goes on to note that they will continue to work
with Speaker Pelosi’s staff and the House Foreign Affairs Committee
staff to bring up the resolution "sometime later this year or in 2008."
October 10, with a vote 27 to 21 the U.S. House Committee on Foreign
Affairs adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.106, which
was introduced by Representative Adam Schiff January 30, 2007.