TURKISH LOBBY PRESSES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO PUSH AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

ArmInfo
2010-03-24 18:17:00

ArmInfo. Two parliamentary delegations in Washington, one led by
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Murat Mercan and another led by
Turkish- US Interparliamentary Friendship Group head Suat Kiniklioglu,
yesterday started to urge the Obama administration to make a stronger
push against passage by the US House Foreign Relations Committee of
a resolution that would recognize the incidents of 1915 as genocide,
warning that its passage would undermine the ongoing rapprochement
efforts between Turkey and Armenia, thus endangering stability in
the Caucasus.

Dunya news agency reports that, at a press conference at Turkey’s
Washington Embassy, Mercan said putting the proposed resolution to
a full House vote would benefit neither Turkey nor the US but only
undermine efforts to ensure peace and stability in the Caucasus.

The delegations will try to make US officials and congressmen aware of
the extreme harm that passage of the resolution would do to regional
peace and stability, Mercan said.