LA TIMES: OBAMA-ERDOGHAN MEETING TO FOCUS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.12.2009 18:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In their upcoming meeting¸U.S.President Barrack
Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoghan will need to
navigate the perennial issue of an annual U.S. statement to America’s
Armenian community on the day of commemorating Armenian Genocide
victims. Breaking a campaign pledge, Obama has refrained from referring
to the killings as genocide, a term widely viewed by genocide scholars
as an accurate description, Los Angeles Times reports.

The Obama administration has said it is wary that the sensitive issue
could upset talks that could lead to reconciliation and a reopening
of the border between Armenia and Turkey. It remains unclear how the
administration will handle the issue in the future, especially if talks
between Turkey and Armenia falter, the author of the article says.