Sen. Menendez presses Turkey Ambassador nominee on his record of voting against Armenian Genocide resolutions

Emil Lazarian 2021
Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 28 2021
, 21:26

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At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing for former Senator Jeff Flake as US Ambassador to Turkey, Senator Bob Menendez pressed the nominee on his record of voting against Armenian Genocide resolutions.

Senator Bob Menendez asked: “Will you join this body and the Administration in reaffirming the Armenian Genocide?”

Flake said: “Yes.”

Senator Menendez then asked: “If confirmed, will you [Flake] reiterate that commitment on April 24th, Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day?”

“I will,” Flake responded.

 

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS