White House spokesperson avoids commenting Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net

White House spokesperson avoids commenting Armenian Genocide
04.04.2009 23:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ahead of President Barack Obama’s trip to Turkey, at
a news briefing the White House spokesperson avoided discussing the
Armenian Genocide when asked by a reporter to comment on the matter.

Responding to a reporter’s query on whether `the President still
believe that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians,’
White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs, said: `We’ll get into that I
think later on.’

When pressed to comment further, Gibbs said: `I’ll leave that for–I
can’t give away everything in one gaggle, for goodness sakes.’

Gibbs explained the trip to Turkey aimed to strengthen an important
relationship.

`I mean, again, I think it’s to strengthen an important relationship
and reach out to–and demonstrate the importance of–their importance
in our relationship and, again, issues that we have in common that we
want to work on. I mean, look, I think it’s an opportunity to probably
go also to a country that people may not have expected us to visit on
our first trip over here, and I think it’s an important signal for the
President,’ explained Gibbs, Asbarez.com reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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