FORMER DIPLOMAT REVEALS SECRET STATE DEPARTMENT ATTACKS ON 1980S ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTIONS
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
17.12.2009 11:13 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A retired Foreign Service officer, U.S. Ambassador
Arma Jane Karaer, has revealed a series of shocking revelations about
the State Department’s behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of Turkey
during the 1980s to kill Congressional initiatives commemorating the
Armenian Genocide, according to now public documents circulated today
by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
The revelations are part of an oral history interview with Karaer,
a foreign service officer who served, among other postings during her
long diplomatic career, as a commercial officer in Ankara and as the
State Department’s senior Turkish Desk Officer.
"We’re circulating Ambassador Karaer’s interview – a truly stunning
example of undisguised cynicism in the face of genocide and denial –
as a public service," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the
ANCA. "As painful as her callous remarks are to read, they do – in
their candor – provide powerful insights into the depths to which U.S.
officials have sunk in enforcing Turkey’s genocide denial dictates.
Sadly, it would seem, the pervasive attitude of expediency over
morality characterized by her words remains, even today, much more
the rule rather than the exception among the senior ranks of our
nation’s Foreign Service."