ArmenPress
Aug 24 2004
WARWICK MAYOR OF ARMENIAN ORIGIN SENT A LETTER TO US CHAIRMAN OF
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WARWICK, AUGUST 24, ARMENPRESS: Scot Avetissian, the mayor of
second biggest city of Rhode Island, Warwick, sent a letter to the
third high rank official in the country, chairman of House of
Representatives Dennis Hastertin calling him to reconsider his
disposition to Resolution 193 and the bill proposed by Adam Sheef.
In May, 2000, Legal Committee of the House of Representatives
unanimously adopted Resolution 193 which says that US will remember
all previous crimes against humanity, including Armenian Genocide.
However, House of Representatives headed by Dennis Hastertin plans to
exclude the issue from its full session.
“Didn’t you talk about proposing the resolution on Armenian
genocide to the House of Representatives still in 2000,” Avetisian’s
letter says. “Next year the 90th anniversary of Armenian Genocide is
celebrated and it would be to the point to make a gesture to a nation
whose biggest hope, according to Ronald Reigan, “is the recognition
of the massacre of one and half million Armenians.”
In terms of Sheef’s bill, Scot Avetissian writes, “It is important
that US Congress openly states that Turkish government will not have
any US support in its lobbying efforts against resolution on
genocide.”
It is true that the House of Representatives adopted Sheef’s
resolution in its full session last month, however, Hastertin and
some republican congressmen publicly have opposed it later. Why does
Hastertin oppose Sheef’s resolution. American people do not pay taxes
for Turkish lobby, don’t they? – American Commission on Armenian
Cause poses the question and waits for the reply of the letter.