We
have extensively criticized Armenia’s foreign policy and
diplomatic efforts vis-à-vis the protocols and the Karabakh
conflict resolution process, but a small news item Thursday
prompts us to warn that someone’s asleep at the wheel again.
Armenian Parties Warn Azerbaijan
Against Another War
WASHINGTON– US Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Tuesday began
circulating a Dear Colleague letter, urging fellow House Members
to sign on as co-sponsors of H. Res. 252, the Affirmation of the
U.S. Record on the Armenian Genocide, introduced by him to
recognize, commemorate and properly characterize the murder of
1.5 million Armenian men, women and children during World War I
as genocide.
WASHINGTON (RFE/RL)–Turkey can no longer
count on the backing of the powerful Jewish lobby in the United
States in its efforts to block a congressional resolution
recognizing the Armenian genocide, according to a
Washington-based journalist.
WASHINGTON–The
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) this week
circulated a memo to Congressional offices highlighting Turkey’s
increasingly stark double-standard in aggressively challenging
U.S. interests while continuing to dictate to American leaders
what they can – and cannot say – about the Armenian Genocide.
As Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan continues playing the world’s champion of human
rights, four professors from Bar Ilan and Georgetown
Universities have sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu seeking official Israeli recognition of the Armenian
genocide and an official call to Turkey to bring an end to its
occupation of Cyprus.
YEREVAN (ARF
Press Service)—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation concluded
its 15th Supreme Assembly of Armenia on Sunday with the election
of a new ARF Supreme Council of Armenia to govern the
pan-national political parties operations in Armenia for the
next two years.
June 06, 2010
Paul Krekorian Kicks Off Glendale ANC Speaker
Series with Dinner Discussion
LA City Council Member Paul
Krekorian spoke to ANC-Glendale activists and supporters about
civic involvement. Krekorian, a former California Assemblymember
for the 43rd District, shared his experiences of municipal
governance in a friendly question answer session that involved a
discussion about issues facing the Los Angeles Armenian
community.
June 05, 2010
Armenia Stands Firm Against
Turkish Role in Karabakh Talks
Armenia plans no further
fence-mending negotiations with Turkey and will continue to
oppose any Turkish involvement in the ongoing international
efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, President
Serzh Sarkisian said on Wednesday, reported RFE/RL.
Visiting the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, Sarkisian
again blamed Turkey for the effective collapse of the
Turkish-Armenian agreements to normalize bilateral ties. He
defended his decision in late April to freeze Armenian
parliamentary ratification of the two "protocols."
ANKARA
(Combined Sources)–Turkey has accused Israel of state-sponsored
terrorism while describing Monday morning’s Israeli attack on a
fleet of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
June 01, 2010
Turkish PM Erdogan cancels
Argentina
Trip
Turkish Prime
Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled the Argentina leg of
his tour of Latin
America.
It
comes after city officials in
Buenos Aires
called off an event inaugurating a monument to the revered
founder of modern Turkey,
Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk.
The Turkish
foreign ministry blamed "hostile" interference from
Armenian pressure groups in Argentina.
Turkey and Armenia remain in a long-running row over the 1915
mass killing of
Armenians by the Ottoman Turks.
Armenian groups want Turkey to recognise the killings as
genocide - Argentina is one of several countries to have done
so.
President Cristina Kirchner is reported to have telephoned Mr
Erdogan to express her understanding of his position, but to
explain that the
central government could not reverse the city
government's decision.
Mr Erdogan had been due to meet Ms Kirchner on Monday but will
now travel directly to
Chile for
the next leg of the tour.
May 26, 2010
ANCA Participates in a Hai
Tahd Conference in Yerevan
Horizon's Paul Chaderjian speaks
with Armenian National Committee of America Executive Director
Aram Hamparian about his recent trip to the republics of Armenia
and Nagorno Karabakh to participate in an international Hai Tahd
Conference. Mr. Hamparian also addresses plans by the Woodrow
Wilson Center to honor the Turkish Foreign Minister, who
vehemently denies US Pres. Woodrow Wilson's beliefs and
ideologies.
YEREVAN—The recent adoption by
the European Parliament of a report urging the return of
Nagorno-Karabakh to Azeri rule could have been prevented, the
head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Supreme Council
in Armenia said on Tuesday.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (Yerkir)—Slamming
a report presented at the European Parliament on Thursday,
Armenian Revolutionary Federation parliamentary faction chairman
Vahan Hovannesian on Friday warned that efforts by the European
Union to establish partnerships are in danger, given the
damaging precedent set by the above report.
BOSTON, MA – A petition campaign
created by a broad coalition of Boston-area Jewish and Armenian
groups and community members has surpassed its original goal of
10,000 signatures and continues to gain support. The online
petition hosted by
Change.org urges U.S. officials to stand up to Turkey’s
multi-million dollar campaign of genocide denial, specifically
calling on Congress and President Obama to officially recognize
the Armenian Genocide.
