Nancy Pelosi Reiterates Genocide Recognition
Published: Friday March 20, 2009
Source: Asbarez.com
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WASHINGTON–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday reiterated that she
and her colleagues in Congress will continue pushing for Genocide
Recognition whether or not President Obama travels to Turkey in April,
Reuters reported Friday.
Whether Obama travels to the region or not "does not deny the fact
that there was an Armenian genocide, and there are those of us in
Congress who will continue to make that point," the California
lawmaker told Reuters.
Pelosi’s spokesman, Brendan Daly, said he did not know whether the
sponsors of the latest resolution had enough support for it to pass in
the House but "no one’s talking about a vote any time soon."
Lawmakers introduced on March 17 legislation into the House of
Representatives calling on the U.S. President to properly recognize
the Armenian Genocide. The resolution was introduced two weeks before
President Obama’s April 5 trip to Turkey and roughly a month before
the White House’s annual April 24 commemoration of this crime against
humanity.
Similar resolutions have been introduced in Congress for years and
Pelosi has been a long-time supporter of having Congress officially
recognize the crime against humanity as a Genocide.