The Turkish lobby has unleashed a fierce war against the Resolution about the Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - It should be mentioned that Madeleine Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Lawrence Eagleburger, Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Georges Shultz have addressed a letter to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, where they had tried to convince her not to put Resolution N 106 about the Armenian Genocide to the vote. The retired diplomats express their worry, saying that "the adoption of the Resolution may endanger the US national security in the region including the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and will upset the efforts of normalizing the Armenian-Turkish relations." The content of the letter makes it clear that the policy adopted by the US State Department is obviously pro-Turkish and this indeed proceeds from the point of view of national security, since besides Israel and Turkey the USA has no other strategic allies in the Middle East. Most probably it's the very moment when the House of Representatives will receive a call from the White House and will "be ask" to postpone the vote. This is what happened at the time of Bill Clinton, when following the advice of the Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the House of Representatives postponed the voting for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

According to the ANCA Executive Director Aram Hambaryan, the US Administration doesn't have enough strength to put an end to a number of genocides - Cambodia, Rwanda, and Dartmouth. "We, Americans are particularly worried with the fact that the warnings for the Congress carry sense of fear towards Turkey and take advantage of our national conscience for the sake of foreign government," he said. In its turn the Armenian Assembly of America also expresses its disagreement with the "diplomats' unreasonable letter", calling it inconsequent from the point of view of American values. "How many excuses should be thought of to avoid the recognition of the truth? Former State Secretaries couldn't overcome Turkey's refusal to dispose the corridor in Northern Iraq to the American troops, which led to the loss of American soldiers," was mentioned in the statement in AAA.

In fact American former diplomats shade doubt upon the principles of human rights, i.e. they do not appreciate the values their country is based on. As a matter of fact the words about "morals" and "national interests" are rarely compatible.

The official Yerevan didn't stay away either, for the given issue doesn't touch upon the problem of Armenian-American or American-Turkish relations, but the security of Armenia. "I got to know the letter of the US former State Secretaries addressed to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi with resentment. The letter called upon upsetting the voting of Resolution N 106 about the Armenian Genocide," said the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vartan Oskanyan. According to him it is indeed sad that eight rather skillful diplomats give way to the Turkish pressure. "There are a lot of questions mentioned in the letter not to agree with, especially in the sense of the negative impact that the Resolution may have. I will only bring forward the untrue statement which says that "the Resolution will upset the efforts of creating a healthy atmosphere between Armenia and Turkey." I have to mention it with a great regret that there is no process, which stimulates any healthy relationship between Armenia and Turkey. Expressing worry for non-existent processes is a feigned position," emphasized Oskanyan.