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    SEN. NORM COLEMAN, R-MINN., SAYS HE WILL VOTE AGAINST ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR NOMINEE

    FOX News
    Aug 2 2006

    WASHINGTON - A Republican senator is planning to vote against President
    Bush's nominee for ambassador to Armenia because the nominee has
    refused to refer to the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.

    "I continue to be troubled by our policy that refuses to recognize
    what was a historical reality," Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman said in
    a telephone interview Wednesday.

    The Bush administration does not question that Turkish troops killed
    or drove from their homes 1.5 million Armenians starting in 1915. But
    it has omitted the word "genocide" to describe it.

    ~U CountryWatch: Armenia

    Turkey strongly objects to the use of the term, and U.S. policymakers
    are wary of antagonizing an important strategic NATO ally.

    On Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on which Coleman
    serves, postponed a vote on Richard E. Hoagland's nomination until
    next month.

    "As someone of the Jewish faith, I bring a heightened sensitivity
    to the reality of genocide and mass murder, and the importance of
    recognizing it for what it is," Coleman said.

    "I was brought up believing you never forget the Holocaust, never
    forget what happened. And I could not imagine how our ambassador
    to Israel could have any effectiveness if he couldn't recognize the
    Holocaust." (AP)
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