Office of the Mayor
City of Los Angeles
ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA
200 N. Spring Street, Room 303
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-978-0600 – Phone
213-978-0775 – Fax
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Gil Durán
(213) 978-0741
October 10, 2007
STATEMENT OF MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA ON HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE*S VOTE TO FORMALLY RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
LOS ANGELES * Mayor Villaraigosa issued the following statement in
response to today*s vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to
formally recognize the Armenian Genocide:
*Today, President Bush wrongly urged Congress to reject a resolution
to recognize the atrocities committed against the Armenian people from
1915-1923 as nothing less than genocide. I commend the House Foreign
Affairs Committee for rejecting the President*s position and casting a
vote of conscience. I urge all Angelenos to call on their
Congressional leaders to formally acknowledge the indisputable
historical fact of the Armenian Genocide. We must never * for any
reason * seek to clothe the horror of ethnic cleansing in bureaucratic
euphemisms.*
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Areen Ibranossian
Policy Analyst
Finance & Performance Management Unit
Office of Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
[email protected]
(213) 922-9781
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