Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Armenia

White House Withdraws Nominee For Armenia Envoy

Richard Hoagland (ANCA)

August 4, 2007 -- The Bush administration has withdrawn its nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Armenia.

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August 04, 2007

Career diplomat Richard Hoagland's nomination had previously been blocked by Democratic Party members of the Senate over Hoagland's refusal to describe the World War I-era killings of Armenians as "genocide."

Turkey, a NATO member and ally of the United States, rejects that up to 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in a planned genocide during the Ottoman Empire.

(AP)

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