ZAMAN: THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE WAS SCHEDULED TO VOTE ON THE RESOLUTION THURSDAY AND APPEARED LIKELY TO ENDORSE IT

ArmInfo
2010-03-04 22:44:00

ArmInfo. The US Congress urges not to act on Armenian resolution,
the Turkish newspaper Zaman says.

The newspaper says that the Obama administration is urging Congress
to hold off on a resolution declaring the World War I era incidents
as genocide. The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee
was scheduled to vote on the resolution Thursday, and appeared likely
to endorse it.

But White House spokesman Mike Hammer said Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton had spoken with the committee’s chairman, Democratic
Rep. Howard Berman, on Wednesday and indicated that such a vote would
jeopardize reconciliation talks between Turkey and Armenia.