U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted Genocide Resolution

10:09 am | March 05, 2010 | Politics
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US House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted Armenian Genocide
Resolution (H.Res.252) with a difference of one vote.

During a 1,5-hour discussion 23 congressmen voted for the Resolution
and 22 against it.

Recall that U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted
resolutions with similar contents in 2000, 2005 and 2007 but they were
not pushed for a final vote in the House of Representatives due to the
painstaking efforts of the White House.

Ahead of the discussion of the Resolution, U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton urged the Committee’s Chairman, Democratic Rep. Howard
Berman to suppress the vote arguing that it would jeopardize the
normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey.