Aysor, Armenia
March 6 2010
US State Dept. doesn’t look with favor on Resolution’s approval
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told congressmen that the
passage of the resolution, calling the mass killings, deportations and
executions of Armenians in 1915 in Turkey as Genocide, will damage the
U.S.-Turkey relations, which are already fragile. So, probably, the
Obama administration will urge Congress to hold off on the Resolution
252.
The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed
Thursday, March 4, the Resolution 252, declaring the Ottoman-era
killing of Armenians as genocide, by a vote of 23 to 22. Turkey
immediately said recalls its Ambassador to the U.S. for consultations.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Resolution’s
approval will influence the relations between Turkey and the U.S. and
will call off the process of reconciliation between Turkey and
Armenia.
Besides, Turkey may now deny the US access to the Turkish air base, a
staging post for Iraq.
Turkey traditionally denies mass killings, deportations, executions,
starvations and other means against the Armenian population in Turkey
that resulted in more than 1,5 million deaths among the Armenians.
Genocide of 1915 is recognized by Uruguay (recognized and condemned
earliest, 1965), Russia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium,
Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus,
Lebanon, Canada, Chile, Argentina, and 42 States of America; by
Vatican, the European Parliament, and the World Council of Churches.