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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TRUTH AND JUSTICE RESOLUTION GAINS MORE SUPPORT
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution gains more support
August 6, 2013 - 10:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Senior Congressional leaders serving on key
foreign policy and appropriations panels have lent their support
to a groundbreaking human rights measure that seeks improved
Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey's acknowledgement of the
Armenian Genocide and a just international resolution of this still
unpunished crime, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).
Among the top House Committee leaders supporting H.Res.227, the
Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution are: Representatives
Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs
Committee; Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the Chairman of the Financial Markets
Subcommittee on Capital Markets; Rush Holt (D-NJ), the Ranking Member
of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy; Steve Israel (D-NY),
the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
and others.
Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam
Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) in May
of this year, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution
reflects and reinforces previous U.S. affirmation of the Armenian
Genocide as a crime of genocide, citing the U.S. Government's May
28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice
regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide, President Ronald Reagan's April 22, 1981 Proclamation
and Congressional adoption of Armenian Genocide legislation in 1975
and 1984. H.Res.227 builds on the record of past U.S. Executive
and Legislative branch affirmation of this crime, and calls on "the
President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable
Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey's full
acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian
Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution
of this crime against humanity."
ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian discussed the very real,
modern day consequences of Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide -
and international community inaction in the face of that denial.
"Turkey's obstruction of justice has, over the course of nearly a
century, allowed Ankara to consolidate its hold on the genocidal gains
of its crimes against the Armenian people, blocking the return to the
Armenian nation of key elements-indispensable elements-of viability
that long sustained the Armenian people on their ancient homeland,"
explained Hamparian, in a May 9th op/ed. "This denial poisons
Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after wave of anti-Armenian
intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia's and Artsakh's security,
and, of course, fuels regional tensions."
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/167556/
From: A. Papazian
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution gains more support
August 6, 2013 - 10:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Senior Congressional leaders serving on key
foreign policy and appropriations panels have lent their support
to a groundbreaking human rights measure that seeks improved
Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey's acknowledgement of the
Armenian Genocide and a just international resolution of this still
unpunished crime, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA).
Among the top House Committee leaders supporting H.Res.227, the
Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution are: Representatives
Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs
Committee; Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the Chairman of the Financial Markets
Subcommittee on Capital Markets; Rush Holt (D-NJ), the Ranking Member
of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy; Steve Israel (D-NY),
the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
and others.
Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam
Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) in May
of this year, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution
reflects and reinforces previous U.S. affirmation of the Armenian
Genocide as a crime of genocide, citing the U.S. Government's May
28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice
regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide, President Ronald Reagan's April 22, 1981 Proclamation
and Congressional adoption of Armenian Genocide legislation in 1975
and 1984. H.Res.227 builds on the record of past U.S. Executive
and Legislative branch affirmation of this crime, and calls on "the
President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable
Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey's full
acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian
Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution
of this crime against humanity."
ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian discussed the very real,
modern day consequences of Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide -
and international community inaction in the face of that denial.
"Turkey's obstruction of justice has, over the course of nearly a
century, allowed Ankara to consolidate its hold on the genocidal gains
of its crimes against the Armenian people, blocking the return to the
Armenian nation of key elements-indispensable elements-of viability
that long sustained the Armenian people on their ancient homeland,"
explained Hamparian, in a May 9th op/ed. "This denial poisons
Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after wave of anti-Armenian
intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia's and Artsakh's security,
and, of course, fuels regional tensions."
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/167556/
From: A. Papazian