BREAKING PROMISE CAUSED ADOPTION OF DECISION

Panorama.am
16:51 27/08/2009

Armenian Cause Office of America addresses a letter to U.S. President
Barack Obama stating: "You have promised to recognize the Armenian
Genocide, but the fact, that You have not recognized it, gave
authorizations to California Court of Appeal to make a decision
which is, in fact, a deep blow for the recognition of the Genocide
in America." Giro Manoyan, the director of Armenian Cause Office
in Yerevan, told about the letter to U.S. President, today at news
conference.

It’s worth reminding that U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created Code of
Civil Procedure which extended the deadline for suing on life insurance
policies issued to "any person of Armenian or other ancestry living
in the Ottoman Empire during the period of 1915 to 1923, inclusive,
who died, was deported, or escaped to avoid persecution during that
period," and expanded state court jurisdiction over such claims.

It is said the law interfered anti-constitutionally the foreign policy
of America.

"Not pronouncing "Genocide" should not forbid any state to recognize
Armenian Genocide. Armenian Community of America is aimed at working
hard for the U.S. President announces if he has not said "Genocide"
word on 24 April, does not mean that any other state should not
recognize Armenian Genocide," diplomat said.

G. Manoyan says it is possible Turkish lobby has some influence
upon this very decision. "I would not like to believe that this is an
attempt by America to make pressure on Armenia. But anyway, it is fact,
irrespective of the court decision, that America has some pressure on
Armenia. I guess, Hillary Clinton’s previous telephone conversation
with President Sezh Sargsyan was on this respect," he said.