Senate hopeful slams Graham for blocking Armenian Genocide res.November 25, 2019 - 11:30 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Senator Lindsey Graham’s challenger, Jaime Harrison, has hammered him for blocking the Armenian Genocide Resolution in Senate. "1.5 million people were expelled from their homes or killed in the Armenian Genocide. It's despicable that Lindsey Graham is playing political games with this resolution," Harrison said in a tweet. “The ANCA welcomes Jaime Harrison’s principled criticism of Lindsey Graham’s obstruction of an up-or-down vote on S.Res.150,” said ANCA Executive Director Aram Suren Hamparian. “We need a Senator from South Carolina who won’t enforce foreign vetoes, including against honest American remembrance of Turkey’s WWI-era genocide of millions of Armenians and other Christian martyrs.” Harrison and Graham are locked in a tight race for a Senate seat from South Carolina. As reported recently, Graham blocked the resolution at the request of a senior White House official. Related links: Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |