Chances for adoption of resolution on Armenian genocide by US congress strong
24.08.2007,
00:08
If Resolution #106 on the Armenian Genocide is put on the agenda of the US Congress today, it will be adopted, Sharistan Melkonian, the leader of the Hay Dat Commission, Massachusetts, USA, told.
YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. The chances for the adoption of Resolution #106 on the Armenian Genocide by the US Congress are strong, Sharistan Melkonian, the leader of the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) Commission, Massachusetts, USA, told a press conference in Yerevan.
If Resolution #106 is put on the agenda of the US Congress today, it will be adopted, she said.
Melkonian said that, according to the US legislation, 218 members of the US Congress must vote for the resolution for it to pass. She pointed out that more members of the US Congress have pronounced for the resolution, but their position during the voting is difficult to forecast, so the number of supporters of the resolution must be increased for it to pass.
Melkonian stressed that the adoption of Resolution #106 is an end in itself for the USA-based Armenian community. The adoption of the document by the USD will make Turkey admit the Armenian Genocide and re-open its border with Armenia.
Resolution #106 was submitted to the US House of Representatives on January 30, 2007. To be adopted, the House Resolution does not need to be approved by the US Senate or signed by the US President.
The Resolution calls on the US President to present issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, as well as the documents kept in the US Archives, in their true light. P.T. –0--
If Resolution #106 is put on the agenda of the US Congress today, it will be adopted, she said.
Melkonian said that, according to the US legislation, 218 members of the US Congress must vote for the resolution for it to pass. She pointed out that more members of the US Congress have pronounced for the resolution, but their position during the voting is difficult to forecast, so the number of supporters of the resolution must be increased for it to pass.
Melkonian stressed that the adoption of Resolution #106 is an end in itself for the USA-based Armenian community. The adoption of the document by the USD will make Turkey admit the Armenian Genocide and re-open its border with Armenia.
Resolution #106 was submitted to the US House of Representatives on January 30, 2007. To be adopted, the House Resolution does not need to be approved by the US Senate or signed by the US President.
The Resolution calls on the US President to present issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, as well as the documents kept in the US Archives, in their true light. P.T. –0--
