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Published on October 16, 2008
MCCAIN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN PAST 20 YEARS OPPOSING GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
- The Atlantic Monthly focused in its latest edition on the Armenian vote in the upcoming elections in an article entitled “McCain's Armenia Problem.” The article says, in part, “John McCain is the first presidential candidate in the past two decades who is on the record as opposing genocide recognition without already being a member of the incumbent Administration… In 1990, McCain voted against a recognition resolution that was sponsored by then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. In 2000, campaigning for the Republican nomination in California, McCain confirmed that he would not support such a resolution. "It was not under this government in Turkey,” McCain said. “I don't see what this resolution does to improve this situation one iota." The Senator has stuck to his position in 2008, attracting widespread criticism from Armenian groups. “I think the most dangerous part of Senator McCain is that he is toeing the old Cold War era line that Turkey is this invaluable ally we cannot offend,” warned Areen Ibranossian, the Chairman of Armenians for Obama, a group promoting the Illinois Senator among Armenian-Americans nationwide. The contrast between Obama and McCain extends more broadly to the United States' relationship with the Republic of Armenia. Obama's January 19th statement pledged to maintain Armenian foreign aid and to move toward a resolution of the Karabakh conflict that would respect the “principle of self-determination”--language close to Armenian demands. On the other hand, John McCain has remained largely silent on these issues, an attitude his critics deride as worrisome indifference. The California-based Armenians for Obama group plans to educate Armenian-American voters about these differences.”
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Today in Armenian history- 1886 Birth of Armin Wegener (soldier, humanitarian). As a German soldier in the Near East, he surreptitiously photographed scenes of the 1915 Armenian Genocide as it was being implemented by the Turks. He unsuccessfully tried to warn governments of possible future genocides. He died in 1978.
- 1914 The German-Turkish fleet, headed by the German admiral Sushon, bombard Russian Black Sea ports.
- 1919 Major General Harbord (Chief, American Military Mission to Armenia) writes: mutilation, violation, torture and death have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful Armenian valleys, and the traveler in that region is seldom free from the evidence of this most colossal crime of all the ages.
- 1991 Levon Ter-Petrossyan was elected President of Armenia.. He was the first president after the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
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