CONGRESSMAN HARRY MITCHELL BRINGS NUMBER OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION COSPONSORS TO 211
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.06.2007 18:21 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Americans from the Grand Canyon State
welcomed this week Congressman Harry Mitchell’s cosponsorship of human
rights legislation concerning the Armenian Genocide (H. Res. 106).
Congressman Mitchell, who represents Arizona’s fifth Congressional
District, has previously served as the Mayor of Tempe, as Chairman
of the Arizona Democratic Party and had a distinguished tenure in
the State Senate.
"Our community here in Arizona appreciates Congressman Mitchell’s
cosponsorship of the Armenian Genocide resolution," commented Arizona
ANC Chairman Yervant Baltajian. "We thank Congressman Mitchell for
his principled leadership on this issue which is important to our
rapidly growing community in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District,"
Baltajian added.
Baltajian and ANC activists working with the ANCA-WR and national
ANCA offices contacted Congressman Mitchell’s local and Washington,
D.C. staff regarding the resolution back in March of this year. This
past May, Baltajian and Arizona ANC activist Salpi Demirjian met with
Congressman Mitchell’s aides in his Scottsdale office to discuss the
resolution and the Armenian Genocide.
Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, which covers Scottsdale, Tempe,
and portions of Phoenix’s northwestern suburbs such as Fountain Hills,
Camp Creek, and Sunflower, is home to a large and growing Armenian
American community. The community is composed of many legal, medical
and business professionals, along with a large number of entrepreneurs
who own their own businesses.
The resolution needs 218 cosponsors for voting in the House of
Representatives.