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American Hellenic Institute
April 7 2013
AHI, ANCA: Future Trade Measures with Turkey Must Require End of
Turkey's Military Occupation of Cyprus, Blockade of Armenia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Georgea Polizos
March 29, 2013 - No. 24 (202) 785-8430
AHI, ANCA: Future Trade Measures with Turkey Must Require End of
Turkey's Military Occupation of Cyprus, Blockade of Armenia
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) and the
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) sent a joint letter to
the acting head of the Office of the United States Trade
Representative, Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, to encourage the Obama
Administration to ensure that any future trade measures involving the
Republic of Turkey, including both bilateral and European
Union-related agreements, require, as a statutory precondition, that
Turkey end its illegal economic blockade of Armenia and its unlawful
military occupation of Cyprus.
`We welcome your leadership on the expansion of U.S. trade and
investment based on a fair playing field and respect for the rule of
law,' wrote the signatories of the letter, AHI President Nick
Larigakis and ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
The American Hellenic Institute is an independent non-profit Greek
American public policy center that works to strengthen relations
between the United States and Greece and Cyprus, and within the Greek
American community.
The Letter: http://ahiworld.com/pdfs/2013ANCAletter.pdf
March 26, 2013
The Honorable Demetrios Marantis
Acting United States Trade Representative
Office of the United States Trade Representative
600 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20508
Dear Ambassador Marantis:
On behalf of our respective communities, we are writing to encourage
the Obama Administration to ensure
that any future trade measures involving the Republic of Turkey,
including both bilateral and European
Union-related agreements, require, as a statutory precondition, that
Turkey end its illegal economic
blockade of Armenia and its unlawful military occupation of Cyprus.
We raise this concern in connection to the White House's March 20,
2013 notification to Congress of its
intent to negotiate a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
with the European Union, and the
Turkish government's own stated interest in joining this agreement and
also in reaching its own Free Trade
Agreement with the United States.
We welcome your leadership on the expansion of U.S. trade and
investment based on a fair playing field
and respect for the rule of law. In the case of Turkey, however, it is
clear that the United States would not
advance our national interests, our economic welfare, or our core
values in any meaningful or enduring
manner by rewarding a nation that so egregiously and flagrantly
undermines the integrity of the global trading
system by occupying a European Union member state and maintaining the
last closed border in Europe.
We appreciate your attention to this matter, and would very much
welcome both a written response to our
concerns and the opportunity to meet with you and your staff to
discuss these and other reservations in
greater detail.
Sincerely,
Nick Larigakis
President Executive Director
AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE
1220 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Aram Hamparian
Executive Director
ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA
1711 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
http://ahiworld.com/media-center/press-releases/2013/1746-ahi-anca-future-trade-measures-with-turkey-must-require-end-of-turkeys-military-occupation-of-cyprus-blockade-of-armenia.html#.UWHzowNV5YA.blogger
April 7 2013
AHI, ANCA: Future Trade Measures with Turkey Must Require End of
Turkey's Military Occupation of Cyprus, Blockade of Armenia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Georgea Polizos
March 29, 2013 - No. 24 (202) 785-8430
AHI, ANCA: Future Trade Measures with Turkey Must Require End of
Turkey's Military Occupation of Cyprus, Blockade of Armenia
WASHINGTON, DC - The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) and the
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) sent a joint letter to
the acting head of the Office of the United States Trade
Representative, Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, to encourage the Obama
Administration to ensure that any future trade measures involving the
Republic of Turkey, including both bilateral and European
Union-related agreements, require, as a statutory precondition, that
Turkey end its illegal economic blockade of Armenia and its unlawful
military occupation of Cyprus.
`We welcome your leadership on the expansion of U.S. trade and
investment based on a fair playing field and respect for the rule of
law,' wrote the signatories of the letter, AHI President Nick
Larigakis and ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
The American Hellenic Institute is an independent non-profit Greek
American public policy center that works to strengthen relations
between the United States and Greece and Cyprus, and within the Greek
American community.
The Letter: http://ahiworld.com/pdfs/2013ANCAletter.pdf
March 26, 2013
The Honorable Demetrios Marantis
Acting United States Trade Representative
Office of the United States Trade Representative
600 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20508
Dear Ambassador Marantis:
On behalf of our respective communities, we are writing to encourage
the Obama Administration to ensure
that any future trade measures involving the Republic of Turkey,
including both bilateral and European
Union-related agreements, require, as a statutory precondition, that
Turkey end its illegal economic
blockade of Armenia and its unlawful military occupation of Cyprus.
We raise this concern in connection to the White House's March 20,
2013 notification to Congress of its
intent to negotiate a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
with the European Union, and the
Turkish government's own stated interest in joining this agreement and
also in reaching its own Free Trade
Agreement with the United States.
We welcome your leadership on the expansion of U.S. trade and
investment based on a fair playing field
and respect for the rule of law. In the case of Turkey, however, it is
clear that the United States would not
advance our national interests, our economic welfare, or our core
values in any meaningful or enduring
manner by rewarding a nation that so egregiously and flagrantly
undermines the integrity of the global trading
system by occupying a European Union member state and maintaining the
last closed border in Europe.
We appreciate your attention to this matter, and would very much
welcome both a written response to our
concerns and the opportunity to meet with you and your staff to
discuss these and other reservations in
greater detail.
Sincerely,
Nick Larigakis
President Executive Director
AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE
1220 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Aram Hamparian
Executive Director
ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA
1711 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
http://ahiworld.com/media-center/press-releases/2013/1746-ahi-anca-future-trade-measures-with-turkey-must-require-end-of-turkeys-military-occupation-of-cyprus-blockade-of-armenia.html#.UWHzowNV5YA.blogger