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White House spokesperson avoids commenting Armenian Genocide
04.04.2009 23:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ahead of President Barack Obama’s trip to Turkey, at
a news briefing the White House spokesperson avoided discussing the
Armenian Genocide when asked by a reporter to comment on the matter.

Responding to a reporter’s query on whether `the President still
believe that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians,’
White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs, said: `We’ll get into that I
think later on.’

When pressed to comment further, Gibbs said: `I’ll leave that for–I
can’t give away everything in one gaggle, for goodness sakes.’

Gibbs explained the trip to Turkey aimed to strengthen an important
relationship.

`I mean, again, I think it’s to strengthen an important relationship
and reach out to–and demonstrate the importance of–their importance
in our relationship and, again, issues that we have in common that we
want to work on. I mean, look, I think it’s an opportunity to probably
go also to a country that people may not have expected us to visit on
our first trip over here, and I think it’s an important signal for the
President,’ explained Gibbs, Asbarez.com reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress