Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Armenia

Genocide Issue Blocks Naming Of U.S. Ambassador To Armenia

Armenians march through Yerevan in 2005 to mark the 90th anniversary of the slaughter start of mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (ITAR-TASS)

September 13, 2006 -- A U.S. senator has blocked a vote on the nomination of Richard Hoagland to be the new U.S. ambassador to Armenia in protest of the Bush administration's refusal to classify as genocide the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the closing years of the Ottoman Empire.

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September 13, 2006

Until Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from the state of New Jersey, lifts his hold, Hoagland's nomination cannot be voted on by the full U.S. Senate.

The Bush administration and Turkey, successor to the Ottoman state, admit many Armenians died but reject use of the term "genocide."

(AP)

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CALL IT GENOCIDE? Questions surrounding the mass killings of Armenians at the beginning of the last century continue to dominate relations between Armenia and Turkey. In April, Ankara proposed conducting a joint Armenian-Turkish investigation into the mass killings and deportations of Armenians during World War I.
Turkish leaders suggested that the two countries set up a joint commission of historians to determine whether the massacres carried out between 1915 and 1917 constituted genocide. Armenia, however, insisted it would continue to seek international recognition and condemnation of what it says was a deliberate attempt at exterminating an entire people....(more)

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