US ADMINISTRATION URGES CONGRESS TO WAIT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.03.2010 20:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Obama administration is urging Congress to hold
off on a resolution declaring the Ottoman era killing of Armenians as
genocide. The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee was
scheduled to vote on the resolution Thursday, and appeared likely to
endorse it, AP reported.
But White House spokesman Mike Hammer said Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton had spoken with the committee’s chairman, Democratic
Rep. Howard Berman, on Wednesday and indicated that such a vote would
jeopardize reconciliation talks between Turkey and Armenia.