Armenian issue more menacing for Turkey than Kurdish, historian says

PanARMENIAN.Net - "The Armenian issue can have grave consequences for Turkey," historian Haykazun Alvrtsyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. "They say H.Res.106 will worsen relations between Armenia and Turkey. It's nonsense, since it's impossible to worsen something that doesn't exist. At the instigation of Turkey, the United States tries to pass the desirable for reality," he said.



October 10, with a vote 27 to 21 the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.106, which was introduced by Representative Adam Schiff January 30, 2007.



However, in a letter sent to Speaker Pelosi, lead author Adam Schiff (D-CA), Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ), and Representatives Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) stressed that, in asking for this delay, "we believe that a large majority of our colleagues want to support a resolution recognizing the genocide on the House floor and that they will do so, provided the timing is more favorable." The letter goes on to note that they will continue to work with Speaker Pelosi's staff and the House Foreign Affairs Committee staff to bring up the resolution "sometime later this year or in 2008."



"Of course, many innocent people died but a dialogue should determine whether to call it Genocide. Adoption of the resolution wouldn't help to establish dialogue between Armenia and Turkey," said Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried when commenting on the measure.