Armenian National Committee of America
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PRESS RELEASE
October 1, 2007
Contact: Elizabeth S. Chouldjian
Tel: (202) 775-1918
BREAKING NEWS: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION (H.RES.106)
TO BE CONSIDERED BY KEY COMMITTEE ON OCTOBER 10TH
WASHINGTON, DC – The House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to mark
up the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106) on Wednesday,
October 10th, reported the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA.) Committee discussion and adoption of the resolution will
set the stage for subsequent full House consideration of the key
human rights measure.
Armenian American activists are encouraged to voice their support
for the Armenian Genocide resolution by participating in the
ongoing ANCA Congressional Call-In Campaign by visiting:
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The Committee discussion and vote will be webcast live at
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specific time of the Committee meeting is yet to be announced.
Introduced on January 30th by Rep. Adam Schiff along with
Representative George Radanovich (R-CA), Congressional Armenian
Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI),
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Rep. Thaddeus
McCotter (R-MI), the Armenian Genocide resolution calls upon the
President to ensure that the foreign policy of the United States
reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning
issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide
documented in the United States record relating to the Armenian
Genocide. The resolution is cosponsored by 226 Members of Congress
>From 39 states. A similar resolution in the Senate (S.Res.106),
introduced by Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen.
John Ensign (R-NV) currently has 31 cosponsors, including Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton (D-NY).
Over the past nine months, Armenian Americans and human rights
advocates have joined with Members of Congress in educating their
colleagues about the Armenian Genocide and the importance of proper
recognition of this crime against humanity. The ANCA has mounted
several national grassroots initiatives including the highly
successful "Click for Justice" and "Call for Justice" campaigns as
well as the "End the Cycle of Genocide" Advocacy Days, cosponsored
with the Genocide Intervention Network.
The Armenian Genocide resolution is supported by a broad-based
coalition of over 50 human rights, religious, civic, and ethnic
organizations, including the (in alphabetical order): American
Federation of Jews from Central Europe (New York, NY), Americans
for Peace Now (Washington, DC), American Hellenic Council of CA
(Los Angeles, CA), American Hellenic Institute (Washington, DC),
American Hungarian Federation (Washington, DC), American Jewish
World Service (New York, NY), American Latvian Association in the
U.S. (Rockville, MD), American Values (Washington, DC), Arab
American Institute (Washington, DC), Belarusan-American Association
(Jamaica, NY), Bulgarian Institute for Research and Analysis
(Bethesda, MD), Center for Russian Jewry with Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry (New York, NY), Center for World Indigenous Studies
(Olympia, WA), Christian Solidarity International (Washington, DC),
Congress of Romanian Americans (McLean, VA), Council for the
Development of French in Louisiana (Lafayette, LA), Estonian
American National Council (Rockville, MD), Genocide Intervention
Network (Washington, DC), Global Rights (Washington, DC), Hmong
National Development, Inc., Hungarian American Coalition
(Washington, DC), Institute on Religion and Public Policy
(Washington, DC), International Association of Genocide Scholars
(New York, NY), Jewish Social Policy Action Network (Philadelphia,
PA), Jewish War Veterans of the USA (Washington, DC), Jewish World
Watch (Encino, CA), Joint Baltic American National Committee
(Rockville, MD), Leadership Council for Human Rights (Washington,
DC), Lithuanian American Community (Philadelphia, PA), Lithuanian
American Council (Rockville, MD), National Ethnic Coalition of
Organizations (New York, NY), National Council of Churches USA (New
York, NY), National Federation of American Hungarians (Washington,
DC), National Federation of Filipino American Associations
(Washington, DC), National Lawyer’s Guild (New York, NY), Polish
American Congress (Chicago, IL), Progressive Jewish Alliance (Los
Angeles, CA), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, PA),
Slovak League of America (Passaic, New Jersey), The Georgian
Association in the USA (Washington, DC), The Workmen’s
Circle/Arbeter Ring (New York, NY), U.S. Baltic Foundation
(Washington, DC), Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (New
York, NY), Ukrainian National Association (Parsippany, NJ),
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (Washington,
DC), United Hellenic American Congress (Chicago, IL), Washington
Chapter Czechoslovak National Council of America (Washington, DC),
and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
(Philadelphia, PA), and the Zionist Organization of America (New
York, NY).
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
