SECRETARY CLINTON’S INTERVIEW WITH VLADIMIR POZNER OF FIRST CHANNEL TELEVISION

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March 22 2010

QUESTION: (Inaudible.) He writes, "I’m a second-year student in the
city of Sochi. I’m interested in the acknowledgement of genocide
committed by the Ottoman empire against the Armenians. Why does
President Obama not recognize Resolution 252? During his campaign,
he promised that the U.S. would recognize the genocide, but now that
he’s President, he seems to have forgotten."

SECRETARY CLINTON: I don’t think anyone has forgotten, but what has
happened that is of great import is the work going on between Turkey
and Armenia. In fact, I was in Zurich last fall with the foreign
ministers of Turkey, Armenia, Russia, France, other countries to
witness the signing of a set of protocols to normalize relationships
between Armenia and Turkey. And in those protocols, there was
an agreement between the two countries to establish a historical
commission that would look at all of the issues that are part of
the past.

And I think that’s the right way to go, I think, to have the two
countries and the two peoples focusing on this themselves. I have
said many times we cannot change the past we inherit. All we can do
is try to have a better future.

QUESTION: Does that commission exist now?

SECRETARY CLINTON: They’re working to create it.

QUESTION: They’re working on it. I see.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Yes.