BARACK OBAMA LOST HIS SECOND OPPORTUNITY TO AFFIRM ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanArmenian News
April 25 2009
Armenia
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ US President Barack Obama’s April 24 statement is his
second lost opportunity to affirm the Armenian Genocide. On the first
occasion, his visit to the Republic of Turkey, the President stated
that his view on the Armenian Genocide was well known and remained
unchanged, yet he chose not to utter the word "genocide". Ross Vartian,
Executive Director US-Armenia Public Affairs Committee (USAPAC) stated.
"The President then urged the Turkish government and people to face
this history, just as America had done with African-Americans and
Native Americans. On the second occasion, the solemn remembrance
day of April 24, President Obama failed to affirm his record as
Senator and his repeated pledges as candidate for the presidency
to characterize this crime against humanity by its proper name, the
Armenian Genocide. Instead, the President committed his administration
to fully support the normalization of relations between Armenia and
Turkey "without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe". While
a laudable objective, normal relations between these nations and an
open Armenian-Turkish border are not substitutes for the United States
affirming its own voluminous history on the Armenian Genocide and
its directly linked global responsibility to help end the scourge
of genocide. President Obama knows very well and has eloquently
acknowledged that as long as genocide denial is tolerated that the
act of genocide itself continues, as it does for Armenians on this day
of commemoration and remembrance," USAPAC reported to PanARMENIAN.Net.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
