U.S. LAWMAKERS CALL ON 111TH CONGRESS TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
13.02.2009 17:50 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A letter seeking U.S. House cosponsors for a renewed
drive to secure the adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution was
circulated today on Capitol Hill by the legislation’s lead authors,
Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and George Radanovich (R-CA), and
Armenian Caucus Co-Chairmen Frank Pallone (D-NJ), and Mark Kirk
(R-IL), reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

"We join today with millions of Armenians throughout the United States,
in Armenia, and around the world in welcoming the launch of this new
drive toward U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide," said Aram
Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA. "It’s always the right time
to take a stand against genocide. Now – with long-standing advocates
of this noble and necessary cause in the White House, leading the
State Department, serving in the Cabinet, heading up both Houses of
Congress, and chairing key Congressional committees – we are set to
overcome the final barriers to full and formal U.S. recognition of
the Armenian Genocide."

In the letter, the four legislators invited their House colleagues
to join the resolution as original cosponsors, which will mean
that they will be listed as supporters starting from the day of
its introduction. During the recently concluded 110th Congress, an
identical measure secured the support of 212 cosponsors, was adopted
by the Foreign Affairs Committee, but was eventually blocked from a
vote on the House floor by sustained attacks by then-President George
W. Bush and his Administration.