CONDOLEEZZA RICE WROTE HOW SHE FOUGHT AGAINST THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION IN THE CONGRESS IN A BOOK
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13:17 – 01.11.2011
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has written in a book,
how she was literally begging the then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
not to bring the Armenian genocide resolution to the full House floor.
In her book titled No Higher Honor and to be published soon, Rice
writes that US’ diplomatic relations with Turkey were threatened as
the Turks were angry over the Genocide resolution in the Senate.
“No one denies those tragic events. But that is an issue for historians
to deal with, not politicians … And exactly when the tension on
the Turkish-Iraqi border had reached its climax, the Foreign Affairs
Committee of Senate’s House of Representative adopted that resolution,”
Rice is quoted as writing in some excerpts that have already been
published in the media.
“I was begging the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy
Pelosi not to bring that resolution to a full Congress vote. But
Pelosi told me ‘I cannot do anything’,” Rice writes in her book.
Further, she says that, together with the then Defense Secretary
Robert Gates, they told the press that the US administration is
against that resolution.
“We promised the Turks…
From: A. Papazian