97% OF ARMENIAN AMERICANS OPPOSE HOAGLAND NOMINATION
Yerevan, January 9. ArmInfo. 97% of Armenian Americans support opposition to the confirmation of Richard Hoagland as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, according to a new Internet poll conducted by the ANCA-Western Region over the past two weeks in nineteen Western U.S. states. This viewpoint is aligned with the policy position of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), which has been leading and vigorously pursuing this issue in Congress and with the Administration. The 97% figure is based on polling conducted between December 28, 2006 and January 8, 2007. The controversy over the Hoagland nomination began with the firing of his predecessor, John Evans, for speaking truthfully about the Armenian Genocide. This firing, for breaching the State Department's policy of complicity in the Turkish government's denial of this crime, was compounded by Hoagland's outright denial of the Genocide in response to questions posed during and after his June 2006 confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Based on growing reservations over the Evans dismissal and, later, Hoagland's deeply offensive responses, more than half of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee members and over 60 U.S. Representatives formally raised their concerns on this matter with the Administration. Meanwhile, The Los Angeles Times reminds that nearly two years ago, the former ambassador John Evans did something that none of the former U.S. ambassadors to Armenia before him had done: He used the word "genocide" - in public - to describe the deaths of about 1.2 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks. It has long been a sore point with Armenian Americans that the U.S. government does not refer to the killings that began in 1915 as genocide, and Evans' use of the word did not signal a change in that policy. It did set off a slow-boiling controversy that eventually cost him his job. In a short interview, his first since leaving the State Department, Evans declined to discuss his motives in making the genocide statement, but said that "it wasn't a slip of the tongue." "I knew it was not the policy of the United States" to use the word "genocide," Evans said. "Ninety years is a long time," Evans added, referring to the decades since the genocide began. "At some point you have to call a spade a spade."
THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJANI TO MEET IN MOSCOW ON JANUARY 23
Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Vartan Oskanian and Elmar Mamedyarov will meet on January 23 in Moscow, Russia, for another round of talks on ways to settle the Armenian-Azeri dispute over ...AZERBAIJAN PAYING A HIGH PRICE FOPR REFUSING FROM RUSSIAN GAS. RETURN TO MAZUT BLACK OIL
By A. HaritiunianIn Azerbaijan the prices for fuel, electricity, water and gas has considerably grown in the past few days. For example, gasoline prices have grown about 50% coming to 50-60 cents. This situation is most ...97% OF ARMENIAN AMERICANS OPPOSE HOAGLAND NOMINATION
Yerevan, January 9. ArmInfo. 97% of Armenian Americans support opposition to the confirmation of Richard Hoagland as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, according to a new Internet poll conducted by the ANCA-Western ...
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- 1846 Birth of Armenian philologist and specialist of Indo-European languages, Serovbe Derveeshyan. He founded and edited the first philological magazine, "Lezoo" (language) in 1887, in Constantinople.
- 1880 Hovhannes Lazaryan presents his proposal on the liberation of Armenia to A. Suvorov.
- 1923 Decision taken to create a united monetary structure and currency in Transcaucasia.
- 1928 Birth of theoretical physicist Andrey Amatoonee in St. Petersburg (Russia).
- 1967 Arooss -- the largest accelerator in the Soviet Union (6 billion electrovolts), is switched on in Yerevan.
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