QUEBEC’S ARMENIAN COMMUNITY PLEASED WITH U.S. HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Laval News, Canada
Oct 18 2007
Committee adoption of Armenian Genocide Resolution
With a vote of 27 to 21, the influential panel of the U.S. House of
Representatives took a major step toward passing an Armenian Genocide
Resolution (H. Res. 106) and ending U.S. complicity in Turkey’s
denial of the Armenian Genocide. The adoption of the resolution came
amidst an intense campaign of threats and intimidation by the Turkish
government and its lobbyists in Washington, DC, reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA).
The Committee adoption of the resolution has set the stage for
subsequent full U.S. House of Representatives consideration of the
key human rights measure.
"The Armenian National Committee of Quebec (ANCQ) fully supports
this resolution," stated ANCQ President Edward Hagopian. "We applaud
the moral and political courage of not only the committee members
who supported the adoption, but also of the 226 House members who
cosponsored this resolution. Armenian-Quebecers are reminded of
similar resolutions adopted by Quebec’s National Assembly and by
Canada’s House of Commons, in which all the political parties showed
moral leadership and courage in supporting legislation that formally
accepted the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Turkey as being
genocide. We are also reminded of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s
strong moral leadership in re-affirming the Canadian government’s
position of recognition of the Armenian Genocide."