PRESIDENT OBAMA REMINDED ABOUT HIS PLEDGE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.02.2009 14:00 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ POLITIFACT.COM has added Barack Obama Campaign
Promise No. 511 to its list of Obama campaign promises.

It reads: "Recognize the Armenian genocide."

"Two years ago, I criticized the Secretary of State for the firing of
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, after he properly used the term
‘genocide’ to describe Turkey’s slaughter of thousands of Armenians
starting in 1915. As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide,"
Obama said during his election campaign.

In a note POLITIFACT.COM explains that: "When we started looking for
President Obama’s campaign promises, we knew we might not find all
of them, and we hoped our readers would alert us to promises we had
missed. Today we are adding our first promise based on reader feedback:
Obama’s pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The issue has been a hot-button issue on the world stage because the
government of Turkey has objected to the use of the term ‘genocide’
as inaccurate and inflammatory.

A 2007 resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives said the
Armenian Genocide was carried out by the Ottoman Empire between 1915
and 1923, and resulted in the deaths of 1.5 million.

The resolution failed in the face of Bush administration concerns
that it would alienate Turkey, which borders Iraq.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress