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    Armenian Assembly releases updated fact sheet on Armenian Genocide and
    U.S. Record

    http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2013/01/23/armenian-assembly/
    12:26 23/01/2013 » POLITICS


    Today, the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) announced the
    release of an updated edition of its widely-used fact sheet on the
    Armenian Genocide and the U.S. Record. The 11-page fact sheet provides
    a summary of the extensive U.S. historic record on the Armenian
    Genocide from Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's earliest condemnations to
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the Armenian Genocide
    Memorial in Yerevan. As the world observes the start of President
    Obama and Vice President Biden's second term, with John Kerry
    nominated for Secretary of State, the Assembly is making the updated
    fact sheet available.

    When the Armenian Genocide was implemented in Ottoman Turkey, the
    United States responded swiftly with the largest overseas humanitarian
    assistance program organized during World War I. This proud chapter of
    American humanitarianism was supported by U.S. presidents who were
    fully aware of the atrocities committed during the years 1915 to 1923.
    The American diplomatic corps, through its many eyewitness reports
    submitted to the Department of State, created a voluminous record on
    the first mass genocide of the 20th century, and it was through the
    services of the U.S. State Department that the first crucial
    international condemnation of the Armenian Genocide as a crime against
    humanity was communicated to the Turkish authorities. That May 24,
    1915, cable transmitted on behalf of the governments of Britain,
    France and Russia reads:

    In view of those new crimes of Turkey against humanity and
    civilization, the Allied governments announce publicly to the
    Sublime-Porte that they will hold personally responsible [for] these
    crimes all members of the Ottoman government and those of their agents
    who are implicated in such massacres.

    These developments formed the early background to the U.S. position on
    wartime atrocities against civilians, which, in the aftermath of World
    War II, propelled U.S. support for the United Nations Convention on
    the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, a position the
    United States expressly stated in 1951 to the International Court of
    Justice when it listed "the Turkish massacres of Armenians" among "the
    outstanding examples of the crime of genocide," and which President
    Ronald Reagan affirmed in a 1981 proclamation and the U.S. Court of
    Appeals for the District of Columbia further confirmed in 1993. The
    Armenian Genocide was also cited as a precedent at the Nuremberg
    trials. However, the passage of time and the growing influence of
    denial efforts promoted by the government of Turkey have worked to
    relegate this proud chapter in American foreign policy from public
    awareness.

    President Barack Obama, like other U.S. Presidents and officials, has
    taken steps to rectify this problem. Highlights of that record are
    below. President Obama has defined the events using the dictionary
    definition that fits the term Genocide, he has used an Armenian term,
    Meds Yeghern, for the Armenian Genocide in his annual April 24
    Remembrance Day statements and he has referred back to his prior views
    as a senator and presidential candidate when he explicitly referenced
    the Armenian Genocide. President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary
    Clinton, and the Administration also made an historic effort to
    reconcile Turkey and Armenia. In the universal effort to join allies
    and other major countries in using the term Armenian Genocide, the
    United States record on its own history cannot be deleted or
    compromised.

    Established in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest
    Washington-based nationwide organization promoting public
    understanding and awareness of Armenian issues. The Assembly is a
    501(c)(3) tax-exempt membership organization.

    Fact sheet
    http://aaainc.org/fileadmin/aaainc/pdf/2013/FACT_SHEET_-_U.S._Record_on_Armenian_Genocide.pdf?utm_sourceȘA %3AAssembly+Announces+Updated+Edition+of+Fact+Shee t+on+U.S.+Record+on+AG&utm_campaignȘA%3A+Assembly+ Announces+Updated+Fact+Sheet+on+U.S.+Record+on+AG& utm_medium=email


    Source: Panorama.am




    From: A. Papazian
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