ADLP LETTER TO H. BERMAN

Aysor
March 9 2010
Armenia

On the occasion of passing the 252 resolution on the Armenian
Genocide Harutyun Arakelyan, the ADLP Leader sent a message to the
US Congressman Berman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The letter reads:

"Dear Mr. Howard L. Berman

As a representative of a pan-Armenian political party existing since
19th century, I express my gratitude for your Armenian-favor policy
of many years.

I express my gratitude to all the Congressmen who voted in favor
of adopting the Armenian Genocide resolution, H. Res. 252 at the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Congress on March 4, thus
proving that justice is beyond everything and in this case there
cannot be double standards.

Your inexorability towards Armenian question is of special admiration,
especially considering the fact that you didn’t retreat even being
a member of Turkish-American Friendship Committee.

Now about the main subject of my letter:

In Resolution 252 there is a well-grounded survey of the crimes
committed against the Armenian people by the last government of the
Ottoman Empire registered in the Archival documents of many countries
and testifying to the fact that the actions committed in 1915-1923
against the Armenian people are crimes committed towards mankind.

However, an inaccuracy took place in the resolution which probably
should be ascribed to your assistants or to the Armenian favoring
policy conducting other Congressmen’s assistants, who, preparing
Resolution 252, made use of some doubtful sources distorting the
Armenian history. Otherwise, the expression that Armenians were
deprived of their 2500-year-old cradle would not have been introduced
in the Resolution.

Being far from the desire to begin a historical dispute, I would
merely like to mention that there are numerous evidences by foreign
civilizations that the Armenian Nation lived and created in the
Armenian Highlands for more than 4500 years, therefore it would have
been righteous not to write in the Resolution any chronology concerning
the Armenian Nation, and to mention merely that besides massacres,
loots and plunders, also annihilation of Armenians and depriving them
from their homeland took place.

However, I am well aware that any editorial amendment cannot be
introduced in the Resolution now but I hopefully believe that your
Committee will henceforth make use of merely Armenian Academic
authoritative institutions."