WASHINGTON—With only days remaining until President Barack Obama’s long anticipated April 24th remarks this Friday, the lead sponsors of the Armenian Genocide Resolution have announced that the number of co-sponsors for this human rights measure has grown beyond the hundred mark, signaling broad, bipartisan support for official U.S. recognition of this crime against humanity, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
This legislation, spearheaded by lead sponsors, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and George Radanovich (R-Calif.) and Congressional Armenian Caucus co-chairs Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), calls on the U.S. president to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide. It was introduced on March 17 and has been referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution is identical to the one introduced in both the House and Senate in the 110th Congress, which was adopted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and publicly endorsed by then-candidate for President Barack Obama, his Vice President Joe Biden, and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“We are gratified that the U.S. Congress ‘s from the leadership to committee chairpersons and the bipartisan rank and file ‘s clearly understands that America must always address genocide at the level of American values,” said Aram Hamparian, executive director of the ANCA. “America’s willingness to stand up against genocide represents a core moral challenge of the 21st century, not, as Turkey would like, a political issue that it can leverage with pressure, threats, and intimidation.”
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