ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Aug 23 2007
Chances for adoption of resolution on Armenian genocide by US
congress strong
YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. The chances for the adoption of
Resolution #106 on the Armenian Genocide by the US Congress are
strong, Sharistan Melkonian, the leader of the Hay Dat (Armenian
Cause) Commission, Massachusetts, USA, told a press conference in
Yerevan.
If Resolution #106 is put on the agenda of the US Congress today, it
will be adopted, she said.
Melkonian said that, according to the US legislation, 218 members of
the US Congress must vote for the resolution for it to pass. She
pointed out that more members of the US Congress have pronounced for
the resolution, but their position during the voting is difficult to
forecast, so the number of supporters of the resolution must be
increased for it to pass.
Melkonian stressed that the adoption of Resolution #106 is an end in
itself for the USA-based Armenian community. The adoption of the
document by the USD will make Turkey admit the Armenian Genocide and
re-open its border with Armenia.
Resolution #106 was submitted to the US House of Representatives on
January 30, 2007. To be adopted, the House Resolution does not need
to be approved by the US Senate or signed by the US President.
The Resolution calls on the US President to present issues related to
human rights, ethnic cleansing, genocide, particularly the Armenian
Genocide, as well as the documents kept in the US Archives, in their
true light. P.T. -0–