SIXTY HOUSE MEMBER URGE STATE DEP. TO PRESS TURKEY OVER ARMENIAN ISSUES
- DC Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) was joined by fifty-nine U.S. House colleagues on Dec. 15 in calling on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to provide an update on U.S. diplomatic efforts to end Turkey's ongoing denial of the Armenian Genocide, lift its blockade of Armenia, and end its military occupation of Cyprus, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
"We are gratified by the growing Congressional pressure on Turkey to abandon its hostile attitudes and actions against Armenia, Cyprus, and Greece, and will continue to work to ensure that these issues remain at the forefront of the U.S.-Turkey relationship until they are resolved in a just and durable manner," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA.
Concerning the Armenian Genocide, the letter notes that, "few tragedies in our shared history are as comprehensively documented as the fate of more than 1.5 million Armenians living within the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1923." The letter goes on to stress that, "We believe that only by acknowledging the Ottoman Empire's genocidal legacy, can Turkey fully return to the community of nations."
With regard to Turkey's blockade of Armenia, the letter notes that, "despite violating international law and condemnations on behalf of the United States and the European Union, Turkey continues to impose its blockade against Armenia, now in its twelfth year."
It goes on to note that "overall, this policy acts against the interests of the European Union and is counterproductive to U.S. interests to support broad engagement with the nations of the South Caucasus to help them 'remain independent, and [to] become democratic, stable, and prosperous partners of the United States.'"
LITHUANIA RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
With an overwhelming vote on December 15, the Sejm of Lithuania adopted a resolution condemning the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire. As reported by the news agency REGNUM, the ...SIXTY HOUSE MEMBER URGE STATE DEP. TO PRESS TURKEY OVER ARMENIAN ISSUES
DC Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) was joined by fifty-nine U.S. House colleagues on Dec. 15 in calling on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to provide an update on U.S. diplomatic efforts to end Turkey's ...
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- 1772 Birth of Hakob Shahen-Jrpetyan (armenologist) in Urfa. He died in 1837 In Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1912 Hovhannes Toomanyan heads the Caucasian Association of Armenian writers in Tbilissi (Georgia).
- 1915 The Turkish government cancels the Armenian Reforms Project, signed on 1914 02 08.
- 1917 The People's Commissariat of Soviet Russia (headed by Lenin), appoints Shahoomyan (President of the Baku Commune) as temporary extraordinary commissar for Caucasian affairs.
- 1955 Death of psychiatrist and professor, K. Aghajanian.
- 1966 Adoption, by the United Nations, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Both documents establish that All peoples have the right of self-determination. (Article One).
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