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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
April 23, 2009
Contact: Elizabeth S. Chouldjian
Tel: (202) 775-1918
STATEMENT BY ANCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ARAM HAMPARIAN REGARDING
UPCOMING APRIL 24th U.S. PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT MARKING ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE
America’s stand against genocide represents a clear moral
imperative.
Political considerations – whether Turkish threats, prospects for
Turkey-Armenia dialogue, or in any other form – should never stand
in the way of America’s willingness to condemn the Armenian
Genocide, or any genocide, and to stand up for the truth.
As President Obama so appropriately stated at the Holocaust
Commemoration in the Capitol Rotunda earlier today, "We have the
opportunity… to commit ourselves to resisting injustice,
intolerance and indifference in whatever forms they may take,
whether confronting those who tells lies about history or doing
everything we can to prevent and end atrocities like those that
took place in Rwanda, those taking place in Darfur."
We look forward to President Obama’s lifting America’s response to
the Armenian Genocide – and all genocides – to the level of
American values by honoring his pledge to fully and properly
condemn and commemorate this crime against all humanity.