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White House: Bush recognizes 1915
events but doesn’t rank them genocide

06.10.2007 15:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Gordon Johndroe, a White
House spokesman, said President Bush "reiterated his opposition to the
Armenian Genocide resolution, the passage of which would be harmful to
U.S. relations with Turkey." Johndroe said Bush believes the Armenian episode
ranks among the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, but the determination
whether "the events constitute a genocide should be a matter for historical
inquiry, not legislation."

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million
Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event
widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.
Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide.

At the U.S. State
Department, the senior official who deals with Turkish relations said the United
States position is not to deny or accept that genocide occurred. Nevertheless,
Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said, "We do not believe this bill
would advance either the cause of historical truth or Turkish-Armenian
reconciliation or the interests of the United States."

The Turkish
reaction to passage of the bill would be extremely strong, Fried said. It would
do "grave harm" to relations with Turkey, a NATO ally, and damage the U.S. war
effort in Iraq, Turkey’s neighbor.

The resolution is largely symbolic and
would not be binding on foreign policy. Similar measures have been offered
before and never passed, but it appears to have a good chance of passage in the
Democratic-controlled House if it is brought to a vote, The Associated Press
reports.

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