18:42 05/03/2010 » Politics
When the full House vote on Armenian Genocide Resolution will be?
The House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed the Armenian Genocide
Resolution with a 23-22 vote Thursday, even though the Obama
administration had urged Congress not to approve it since it could
harm the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement, the head of the Armenian Case
office Kiro Manoyan told a press conference today.
`I can say that this affected the decision of some Congressmen who
voted against the Resolution.’ K. Manoyan said.
Majority of these Congressmen, as Manoyan said, mentioned two main
causes for being against: first, it may harm American-Turkish ties,
then, the failure of the Armenian-Turkish normalization process.
And all this despite President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement in an
interview with «Al jazeera» highlighting his support for the
Resolution approval, which, actually, the Congressmen are not aware
of.
K. Manoyan felt hard to forecast when the full House vote will be and
whether this will be before April 24.
As to President Obama’s speech and whether he will call the mass
killings of the Armenians a Genocide, the expert said:
`If Obama doesn’t say Genocide this year either, this will not be due
to the Armenian-Turkish normalization process: the process would come
as a mere excuse.’
Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass
killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th
century and took the criticism of the West painfully. The Armenian
Genocide has been recognized by lots of states. It was first
recognized by Uruguay in 1965. Later Russia, France, Italy, the
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden,
Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and
the US 42 states did the same. The Armenian Genocide has been
recognized also by Vatican, the Council of Europe, the World Council
of Churches.
Source: Panorama.am