Hillary Clinton Calls Genocide Resolution `Inappropriate’

By Asbarez Staff on Mar 5th, 2010
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WASHINGTON (ArmRadio)-The Obama administration believes the passage of
the Armenian Genocide resolution on Thursday was inappropriate, U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, reported ArmRadio, citing
Turkish sources.

`We have made that clear to all parties involved,’ she said, while
responding to a question about the resolution in the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.

A journalist asked: `Before entering the administration, both you and
President Obama supported the campaign to label 1915 incidents as
`genocide.’ In recent days, both you and he have made direct appeals
to Howard Berman, the chairman of the House’s Foreign Affairs
Committee, against the draft resolution. Could you explain why you and
the president have reversed course on this issue?’

Clinton responded: `Well, I think circumstances have changed in very
significant ways. When President Obama took office and I became
secretary of state, we determined that the process undertaken by
Switzerland in bringing the Turkish and Armenian governments together
was a very worthy one that we intended to support, and we have done
so. I was personally in Zurich at the time when the protocols for the
normalization of the relationship between the two countries were
signed. We think that is the appropriate way to manage the problems
that have stood in the way of normalization between the two
countries.’

`I do not think it is for any other country to determine how two
countries resolve matters between them, to the extent that actions
that the United States might take could disrupt this process,’ she
said.

`Therefore, President Obama and I have made clear, both last year and
again this year, that we do not believe any action by the Congress is
appropriate, and we oppose it. We do not believe that the full
Congress will or should act upon that resolution, and we have made
that clear to all the parties involved,’ the Hurriyet Daily News cited
Clinton as saying.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress