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  • A New U.S. Ambassador Is Arriving In Yerevan Two Years After John Ev

    A NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR IS ARRIVING IN YEREVAN TWO YEARS AFTER JOHN EVANS WAS RECALLED

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    31.07.2008 GMT+04:00

    Most likely the U.S. Armenian Community and Hay Dat have been satisfied
    with Marie Yovanovitch and the State Department's claims that a
    "Great massacre" occurred in 1915.

    The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has approved of Marie
    Yovanovitch's candidacy as the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. Senators
    approved the candidacy after the U.S. State Department had given
    written answers to the question on mass killings of Armenians in
    Ottoman Turkey during the World War I. The Committee confirmed the
    nomination by roll call, with Senator Boxer going against it. Final
    decision on the Ambassador's nomination will be announced on the August
    session of the Senate. Marie Yovanovitch is to give a final approval.

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ At last a U.S. Ambassador Plenipotentiary will
    lead the U.S. diplomatic mission in Armenia, and there will be
    finally put an end to the rumours that the U.S.-Armenian relations
    have worsened lately. Though many Armenian experts relate it to the
    February 19 Presidential Elections, it is already 22 months since
    the U.S. Ambassador left Armenia. Most likely the U.S. Armenian
    Community and Hay Dat have been satisfied with the statements of
    Marie Yovanovitch and the State Department claiming that a "Great
    massacre" occurred in 1915. "The Administration recognizes that the
    mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and forced deportations of over one
    and a half million Armenians were conducted by the Ottoman Empire. We
    indeed hold Ottoman officials responsible for those crimes." stated
    the letter of the State Department issued to the Chairman of the
    U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Joe Biden in response
    to the questions on nominating Marie Yovanovitch to the post of
    the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. US Assistant Secretary Matthew
    Reynolds stated in the letter that during the Senate hearings Marie
    Yovanovitch had mentioned the International Visitors Program under
    consideration that would bring archivists from Turkey and Armenia
    to the United States for professional training. "Our goal is to
    help archivists protect the evidence of the past so that future
    generations will have the documentation of the mass killings and
    deportations of Armenians committed by Ottoman soldiers and other
    Ottoman officials in 1915. Our goal is not to open a debate on whether
    the Ottomans committed these horrendous acts; it is to help preserve
    the documentation that supports the truth of those events" declared
    Matthew Reynolds in the letter. "In her testimony, Ms. Yovanovitch
    tried to convey her deep empathy with the profound suffering of the
    Armenian people and in no way sought to cast any doubt on historical
    facts," the U.S. Assistant Secretary concluded.

    In his turn Director of the Hay Dat Office Giro Manoyan noted that
    approval of Ambassador-designate Marie Yovanovitch culminated an
    important milestone toward recognition of the Armenian Genocide by
    the U.S. executive branch. "Twenty-two months after Senator Menendez
    put his hold on Richard Hoagland's nomination, through the written
    responses and clarifications of the Ambassador-designate Marie
    Yovanovitch and the U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative
    Affairs, the US Department of State affirms that: a) Over one and
    a half million Armenians have fallen victim to the mass killings,
    ethnic cleansing, and forced deportations conducted by the Ottoman
    Empire", b) The US does not cast any doubt on the reality, and its
    goal is to help preserve the memory of one of the greatest tragedies
    of the 20th century, the Great Calamity. The refusal to qualify the
    tragedy of the Armenian nation as Genocide is simply a manifestation of
    the U.S. President's policy. The recent developments showed that the
    policy and efforts of the Armenian-American community in general and
    of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) in particular,
    have proved efficient. I am confident that the Armenian-Americans
    and their US supporters will soon achieve the recognition of the
    Armenian Genocide by the US President. Turkey must be troubled by the
    US current policy, since soon will arrive the day when the United
    States of America, its legislature, its executive branch and its
    President will require Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide,"
    Mr. Manoyan concluded.

    Everything is accurate, except for one thing: Ronald Reagan called
    the 1915 occurrences "Genocide". And, as far as we can remember,
    Turkey did not protest it much. Indeed, it was a different time;
    Armenia was under the USSR rule and no one could picture that the
    Karabakh War would break up and Ankara would have to take Azerbaijan's
    side. It was exactly then that Turkey became Azerbaijan's hostage,
    lobbying its interests in the U.S.A. By twist of fate, the author of
    the U.S. Resolution 106 on the Armenian Genocide was Adam Schiff,
    Jew by origin and some of the senators, who voted against Richard
    Hoagland, were Jews too...

    As Washprofile claims the U.S. policy depends on the rigid influence
    of the Israeli lobby. It is a rather fragile coalition (composed of
    individuals and organizations), not controlled by a general center,
    its members sharing no common political ideology. In fact, there
    is only one thing that unites the coalition members: it is their
    aspiration to direct the American foreign policy toward stable and
    absolute support of Israel by the U.S. Thus, the Israeli lobby works
    in two fronts. It puts pressure on the legislative and executive
    bodies of the U.S., meanwhile forming a favourable image of Israel
    in public. And in order to carry out its intentions Israel is trying
    to put the discussions on the Near East problems into such a line of
    development that even theoretic prospect of changes in the U.S. policy
    would appear anti-national and absurd in the region. As a most vivid
    example of the Israeli persistence can serve the fact, that the
    latter has hardly ever been seriously criticized by either House of
    the Congress. Moreover, Dick Armey, Former House of Representatives
    Majority Leader, declared in September 2002 that one of his principal
    foreign-policy priorities was the defence of Israel and not that of
    the U.S.A, as it was expected. And since Turkey is one of Israel's
    allies, it is quite logical that the Israeli lobby has gripped Turkey
    as well and the most painful issue for Ankara is the Armenian Genocide.

    Once Barack Obama occupies the Oval Office, changes will take effect in
    the foreign policy of the U.S. Israel will remain a priority country
    for the U.S., but Washington will certainly reconsider its position
    towards other countries, including Turkey.

    Meanwhile the Turkish newspaper "Tasam" writes: "Certain U.S. groupings
    keep accusing Turkey of the Armenian Genocide. This fact may shake the
    Turkish-Armenian relations, which, on the official level, did not exist
    anyway. The strategic cooperation Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran on the one
    hand and Turkey-Azerbaijan on the other hand serve as the main reason
    why there are no relations established between Turkey and Armenia."
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