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    CONDOLEEZZA RICE WROTE HOW SHE FOUGHT AGAINST THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION IN THE CONGRESS IN A BOOK

    yerkir.am
    13:17 - 01.11.2011

    Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has written in a book,
    how she was literally begging the then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
    not to bring the Armenian genocide resolution to the full House floor.

    In her book titled No Higher Honor and to be published soon, Rice
    writes that US' diplomatic relations with Turkey were threatened as
    the Turks were angry over the Genocide resolution in the Senate.

    "No one denies those tragic events. But that is an issue for historians
    to deal with, not politicians ... And exactly when the tension on
    the Turkish-Iraqi border had reached its climax, the Foreign Affairs
    Committee of Senate's House of Representative adopted that resolution,"
    Rice is quoted as writing in some excerpts that have already been
    published in the media.

    "I was begging the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy
    Pelosi not to bring that resolution to a full Congress vote. But
    Pelosi told me 'I cannot do anything'," Rice writes in her book.

    Further, she says that, together with the then Defense Secretary
    Robert Gates, they told the press that the US administration is
    against that resolution.

    "We promised the Turks...




    From: A. Papazian
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