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  1. thx for doing what you do.   How  have you reached out to Armenian organizations community and faith based,   in addition to one to  one approaches.    I had not heard anything  about this.  How broad is your outreach base?    thx   sona

  2. While I contact my representatives and urge them to vote for the Armenian Genocide resolution or thank them for voting for it (in this case in the committee…), I cringe when I see a phrase like “recognize the Armenian Genocide”.  The US has recognized the Genocide.  The mere fact that a President does not use the word genocide does NOT mean, the US has not recognized the events as such.  How many times does President Obama need to say “my position on this matter is very clear and the record clear…I have NOT changed my position.  The US. has not recognized that the earth is round (that it’s not flat on top of a giant turtle).  We don’t need an “official” proclamation stating such a fact.  At the end of the day it’s all about the relationship between Turkey and Armenia and any reasonable degree of restitution.  We need to get out of the comfort zone of focusing on the word and not the implications of the Genocide.

  3. Yes President Obama failed to honer his pledge,
    But the President Obama did say that.My Positition
    on this mater is very clear and the record clear.
    “I HAVE NOT CHANGED MY POSITION,
    We should bee happy, he even said that.

  4. Artashes,
     
    The issue is fundamentally different.
     
    First, official recognition of an event by a state is a prerogative of a parliament of that state. The U.S. Congress (or at least one of its chambers) has not adopted any resolution that unequivocally recognizes the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey. Therefore it’s misleading to state that ‘the US has recognized the Genocide.’
     
    Second, uttering the ‘G’ word in the Annual Address to the Armenian People has no legal ramifications and is not legal recognition per se. It’d bear only moral and psychological implication and would be a confirmation of what Senator Obama has pledged to do before becoming the president. He said: “As president, I will recognize the Armenian Genocide.” Note, he mentioned the word ‘Genocide’ that he will recognize, not the ‘Mets Yeghern.’ Armenians are, therefore, puzzled as to why our president, whose ‘position on this matter is very clear and the record is clear,’ and who pledged himself to recognize the Genocide when he’s in the office, avoids doing so? Is this a behavior of a leader of the nation to you?
     
    I personally don’t care whether or not he’d utter the word because, like I said, it is a resolution (binding or non-binding, doesn’t matter) of a legislative body that enacts something into law, not the words of a president. But Armenians haven’t seen this either. It means that the issue of the Armenian Genocide is not considered by the U.S. government, a self-proclaimed ‘champion’ of human rights and democracy all over the world, as a moral obligation to condemn crimes against humanity, but as a foreign policy tool to pressure Turkey and advance U.S. geostrategic and economic interests in the broader region on Armenia’s account.
     
    It is this indecent duplicity that Armenians stand against and as long as it’s there we’ll be pressuring the government to the point when a resolution condemning the crime is adopted.
     
    But if you have any other solution or a way to proceed, do share with us.

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