"Politically explosive Armenian bill coming to US Congress next week"...

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Politically explosive Armenian bill coming to US Congress next week


By ALI H. ASLAN, WASHINGTON


Thursday, January 11, 2007
zaman.com


The group of congressmen, consisting of Adam Schiff, George Radanovich,
Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg, have sent a letter to other members of
the US House of Representatives, announcing that they would bring forward
the resolution onto the House floor next week and requesting their support
for their initiative, sources said. A vote on a similar resolution was
postponed at the last minute in 2002, when then House of Representatives
Speaker Dennis Hastert, a Republican, shelved it at the intervention of the
US administration.

However, Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who became the first woman to be the
speaker of the House of Representatives after mid-term elections in the
United States in November, promised her voters before the elections that she
would work for approval of the resolution.



The Democrats now have the majority in the House of Representatives and a
vote on the "genocide" resolution is widely expected to mean its
endorsement. The resolution claims that the Ottoman Empire, between 1915 and
1923, massacred 1,5 million of Armenians in Anatolia in a genocide campaign.


The US administration is expected to work to persuade the congressmen not to
support the resolution, as it did in the past. Sources say that the
administration would try to put the resolution on ice for at least a year.
The White House is concerned that the passage of this resolution would
undermine dialogue and cooperation with Turkey on a series of issues,
particularly on the sensitive situation in Iraq.




Turkey is trying to prevent the draft resolution




Although the Democrats promised to their Armenian-origin voters during the
pre-election period that they would push for the resolution, Turkey is still
in a struggle to prevent its passage. The Turkish caucus in the House of
Representatives, the Turkish Embassy in Washington and professional lobbying
companies are telling the US Congressmen that the passage of this resolution
would create tensions in relations with Turkey.


Turkey categorically denies allegations of genocide and says the killings
came when the Ottoman Empire was trying to quell civilian unrest caused by
Armenian revolts in the eastern Anatolia. Egemen Bagis, an Istanbul deputy
from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and a close aide of
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has contacted notable Congress members,
such as Democrat Congressman Robert Wexler and Republican Iliana
Ros-Lehtinen, explaining to them that passage of the resolution would spell
deep damage in Turkish-US ties.


As the Armenian Diaspora in the United States is preparing to bring up the
Armenian genocide allegations in the Congress, U.S. President George W. Bush
once again offered Richard Hoagland as the U.S. ambassador to Armenia,
although he was turned down by the Senate elected in the end of last year.


Pro-Armenian lobby senators asked Bush to offer another candidate instead of
Hoagland. Armenians fiercely oppose appointment of Hoagland, who denies
calling Armenian claims as "genocide." Former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia
John Evans was suspended from the office on grounds that he countered
official policy of the U.S. State Department by using the expression the
"Armenian genocide" during a meeting.


Suspension of Evans caused outrage among Armenians. Hoagland failed to use
the expression "genocide" during his address to the Senate to get approval.
Therefore, Robert Menendez, D-N.J., a supporter of the Armenian lobby,
blocked his appointment and was reported to have sent a letter to Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice with Democrat Senator Harry Reid for naming
another candidate to the post. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nick Burns
wrote a response to Menendez and Reid telling them not to meddle the
appointment of Hoagland with politics.



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