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Turkish Daily News, Turkey
Feb 1 2007
Wilson: US to oppose `genocide' resolution
Thursday, February 1, 2007
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson said yesterday that the U.S.
administration would actively oppose the draft "genocide" resolution
introduced Tuesday by Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the
House of Representatives.
`Yesterday a resolution dealing with the tragic events that took
place at the end of the Ottoman Empire was introduced into the U.S.
Congress. The Bush administration's position on this issue has not
changed. As I have said before, the administration will be actively
involved with the Congress to oppose this resolution,' Wilson said in
a written statement released yesterday.
When Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül visits the U.S. capital next
week, the genocide issue will be at the top of their agenda in talks
with their counterparts.
In a related development, a group of Turkish lawmakers are planning
to head to the United States in February to meet with contacts both
in the House of Representatives and Senate, a move to lobby against
an Armenian `genocide' resolution likely to pass in the U.S.
Congress. But the Turkish Parliament speaker has not yet given the
go-ahead.
The list of lawmakers and appointments with regard to contacts in
the United States has not yet been made clear.
`This was a previously planned initiative to explain the Turkish
theses over Ankara's European Union process and an alleged Armenian
genocide, but nothing is clear as of today,' ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP) deputy Süleyman Gündüz, member of
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission, told the Turkish Daily News.
Feb 1 2007
Wilson: US to oppose `genocide' resolution
Thursday, February 1, 2007
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Ross Wilson said yesterday that the U.S.
administration would actively oppose the draft "genocide" resolution
introduced Tuesday by Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the
House of Representatives.
`Yesterday a resolution dealing with the tragic events that took
place at the end of the Ottoman Empire was introduced into the U.S.
Congress. The Bush administration's position on this issue has not
changed. As I have said before, the administration will be actively
involved with the Congress to oppose this resolution,' Wilson said in
a written statement released yesterday.
When Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül visits the U.S. capital next
week, the genocide issue will be at the top of their agenda in talks
with their counterparts.
In a related development, a group of Turkish lawmakers are planning
to head to the United States in February to meet with contacts both
in the House of Representatives and Senate, a move to lobby against
an Armenian `genocide' resolution likely to pass in the U.S.
Congress. But the Turkish Parliament speaker has not yet given the
go-ahead.
The list of lawmakers and appointments with regard to contacts in
the United States has not yet been made clear.
`This was a previously planned initiative to explain the Turkish
theses over Ankara's European Union process and an alleged Armenian
genocide, but nothing is clear as of today,' ruling Justice and
Development Party (AKP) deputy Süleyman Gündüz, member of
Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission, told the Turkish Daily News.