ADL DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF US AND CANADA LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
AZG DAILY
09-09-2009
International
September 7, 2009
Honorable President Barack Obama,
The White House
1800 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20001
Dear Mr. President,
Your election as the leader of world’s most powerful nation on earth
restored America’s credibility among nations and placed the country
on the path of its Founding Father’s.
We believe that your vision will be able to bring peace to the world
and prosperity at home, because your policies match America’s moral
power to its military strength.
It was that vision which took all the Armenians by storm and helped
to give a landslide mandate to your administration.
One million strong American-Armenian Community was also mobilized to
join the movement mostly inspired by your unswerving stand on issues
that concern the us the most. Your continued actions as senator, and
later your pledge as presidential candidate did not leave any doubt
that this time around moral fortitude would prevail over political
expediency.
Most reassuring was specially your statement made in April 12, 2007
which said in particular: "For those who aren’t aware that there was
a genocide that did take place against the Armenian people. It is one
of these situations where we have seen a constant denial on the part
of the Turkish government and others that this occurred".
In April of 2009 your statement about the Martyrs’ Day Commemoration,
unfortunately fell short of your earlier pledges, allowing the Turkish
government pretending a breakthrough in Armenian-Turkish relations
and then retracting.
However we do believe that your other public and private relevant
statements in Ankara and your administration’s relevant political
actions have brought about a change in Turkish policy’s long standing
intransigence, we believe that those changes must not stand on your way
to fulfill your pledge deny Turkish policy makers to find subterfuge
in Armenia’s hesitation.
For many years the promise that using the word Genocide may harm
American-Turkish relations has proven wrong. Every time Turkey
makes a headway in that direction, America’s moral paradigm is
compromised. Hiding festering wounds will not help healing.
Thanks to your leadership, recent Protocols were made public by the
representative foreign ministries of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland on
August 31. Those advances must not pre-empt America’s moral standing,
nor its credible foreign policy.
We urge you at this critical stage of the entire Caucasus region to
confront Turkish leaders with the historic through. That will help in
the first place heel the deep wounds in the history of the Turkish
people, thereby laying the foundations of a true democracy aspiring
the family of civilized nations.
We believe that will also be consonant to your conscience of America’s
global leadership and help Armenian region its place in the world.
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From: Sebouh Z Tashjian <sebouhz_tashjian@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: ADL district committee of US and Canada letter to president Obama
AZG DAILY #161, 09-09-2009
International
Update: 2009-09-09 00:13:46 (GMT +04:00)
ADL DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF US AND CANADA LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Edmond Azadian, Co-chairman
Papken Megerian, Co-chairman
September 7, 2009
Honorable President Barack Obama,
The White House
1800 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20001
Dear Mr. President,
Your election as the leader of worldâ??s most powerful nation on earth restored Americaâ??s credibility among nations and placed the country on the path of its Founding Fatherâ??s.
We believe that your vision will be able to bring peace to the world and prosperity at home, because your policies match Americaâ??s moral power to its military strength.
It was that vision which took all the Armenians by storm and helped to give a landslide mandate to your administration.
One million strong American-Armenian Community was also mobilized to join the movement mostly inspired by your unswerving stand on issues that concern the us the most. Your continued actions as senator, and later your pledge as presidential candidate did not leave any doubt that this time around moral fortitude would prevail over political expediency.
Most reassuring was specially your statement made in April 12, 2007 which said in particular: "For those who arenâ??t aware that there was a genocide that did take place against the Armenian people. It is one of these situations where we have seen a constant denial on the part of the Turkish government and others that this occurred".
In April of 2009 your statement about the Martyrsâ?? Day Commemoration, unfortunately fell short of your earlier pledges, allowing the Turkish government pretending a breakthrough in Armenian-Turkish relations and then retracting.
However we do believe that your other public and private relevant statements in Ankara and your administrationâ??s relevant political actions have brought about a change in Turkish policyâ??s long standing intransigence, we believe that those changes must not stand on your way to fulfill your pledge
deny Turkish policy makers to find subterfuge in Armeniaâ??s hesitation.
For many years the promise that using the word Genocide may harm American-Turkish relations has proven wrong. Every time Turkey makes a headway in that direction, Americaâ??s moral paradigm is compromised. Hiding festering wounds will not help healing.
Thanks to your leadership, recent Protocols were made public by the representative foreign ministries of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland on August 31. Those advances must not pre-empt Americaâ??s moral standing, nor its credible foreign policy.
We urge you at this critical stage of the entire Caucasus region to confront Turkish leaders with the historic through. That will help in the first place heel the deep wounds in the history of the Turkish people, thereby laying the foundations of a true democracy aspiring the family of civilized nations.
We believe that will also be consonant to your conscience of Americaâ??s global leadership and help Armenian region its place in the world.
Sincerely,
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