Genocide | 11.03.10 | 13:54
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Recently, the fifth event by the Amnesie Internationale organization has taken place in the French city of Marseilles. The organization is aimed at resisting the policy of denying the genocides of the 20th century. Along with some intelligentsia and art representatives, NKR Permanent Representative to France Hovhannes Gevorkian participated in the event.
Genocide | 05.03.10 | 00:58
By a tense and, for some, shocking vote of 23-22 the United States Congress House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved House Resolution 252 calling for affirmation of the Armenian Genocide.
As lobbyists and analysts waited while other votes were taking place on the House floor, the “nay” votes outnumbered “yea” until the Armenian side captured the last three votes (with one member not voting).
Genocide | 04.03.10 | 13:15
The United States House Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled today to begin debating House Resolution 252, urging the US Government to adopt policy recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
Genocide | 04.03.10 | 11:41
The presentation of the electronic version in Armenian of “Was There an Armenian Genocide?” legal opinion piece by international law specialist Geoffrey Robertson took place in Yerevan this week.
Genocide | 04.03.10 | 10:52
From Reuters news service
The US aerospace and defence industry is urging House of Representatives lawmakers to reject a measure that would call a World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, warning it could jeopardize US exports to Turkey.
Genocide | 03.03.10 | 11:56
Correspondent Bob Simon took a drive into what is now Syria, to the barren wilderness, to what amounts to the largest Armenian cemetery in the world as the most respected investigative news television program in the United States looked into “the longtime feud between Turkey and Armenia over Genocide.”
Genocide | 02.03.10 | 12:32
Source: Anadolu agency
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ANKARA - Spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Burak Ozugergin, said Monday Turkey expected the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States House of Representatives to reject a resolution on the incidents of 1915 so that "such a resolution does not hurt Turkish-U.S. relations and harm efforts to normalize relations between Turkey and Armenia".
Genocide | 19.02.10 | 13:02
From Hurriyet Daily News
Passage of the Armenian genocide resolution by a U.S. congressional panel early next month would hinder normalization efforts with Armenia, Turkey warned Thursday.
Genocide | 09.02.10 | 11:27
Turkey deems the move in US Congress to discuss another resolution calling for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey as an attempt to put pressure on it in what now appears a stalling rapprochement with Armenia.
Genocide | 05.02.10 | 16:40
U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Howard Berman (D-CA), a leading Congressional supporter of human rights and a longstanding friend of the Armenian American community, has scheduled a vote of his panel on the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.252, for Thursday, March 4th, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) reported Friday.
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