"USA PRESIDENT HAS NEVER DENIED THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"
H. Chaqrian
AZG Armenian Daily
20/06/2008
Armenian Genocide
While the democrat candidate for presidency Barak Obama was stressing
the importance of recognizing the Armenian Genocide in his message to
Hay Dat commission chairman Ken Hajickian, Assistant to US Secretary
of State, Daniel Fried, was making a speech at the Congress House of
Representatives, dedicated to the latest events in Caucasus.
Fried qualified the Armenian-Turkish relations as very fine and
painful and stated that Armenia must recognize the existing border
with Turkey and be ready to answer Turkey’s possible gestures. He
said that Armenian authorities must officially declare that they have
no territorial claims from modern Turkey, and Turkey, in its turn,
must be ready to face the darkest pages of its own history, however
difficultit be.
CNN-Turk, referring to Fried’s speech notes that pro-Armenian Congress
members Adam Schiff and Diane Watson were sternly asking why the USA
has not recognized the Armenian Genocide yet. Fried replied that the
fact of the Armenian Genocide has been never denied by the President
of the United States. He said that the term "genocide" is never
used due to reasons of political matters, as it would by no means
contribute either the development of the Armenia-Turkey relationships,
or Turkey’s own approaches to the matter.
Yesterday candidate for the office of US Ambassador to Armenia,
Mary Yovovich was to be interviewed at the Senate’s Foreign Affairs
Commission. Most evidently, the Senators were to make clear Yovovoch’s
position on the Armenian Genocide.