PHILIP GORDON: US ADMINISTRATION CANNOT INFLUENCE US CONGRESS’ DECISION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

ArmInfo
2010-03-18 17:07:00

ArmInfo. US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon warns that
if the US House of Representatives allowed the Armenian resolution
to proceed any further, this would harm the normalization process
between Turkey and Armenia.

At the sixth annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture at the Brookings Institution,
US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon yesterday delivered a
speech on issues such as Turkish-US relations, the Armenian resolution,
secularism, freedom of the press, and the ongoing Ergenekon probe
in Turkey. He said that Congress and the Obama administration,
which he said had clearly and consistently opposed the resolution,
are separate institutions. Stating that Turkey should protect the
progress it has made, Gordon said, "Turkey must be careful to ensure
that its hard-won successes in building a secular state and strong
democratic system are sustained into the future."