Swedish Parliament gets it right, when will the U.S. Congress?‏

March 12, 2010 Swedish Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide ANCA Challenges Obama Administration Attack on Armenian Genocide Resolution | Read | Take Action Now: End Turkey's Gag Rule on U.S. Genocide affirmation Write to President Obama Expressing Your Outrage Write to Congress Urging Passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution Wrap Up: House Foreign Affairs Committee Vote on H.Res.252 * Watch the Hearing * See the Vote Tally * Read the ANCA Briefing Book ANCA Welcomes Swedish Parliament's Adoption of Resolution Recognizing Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean and Pontic Greek Genocide WASHINGTON, DC -- Over strident opposition from the Turkish Government, the Swedish Parliament, this week, adopted a resolution recognizing the murder and annihilation of the Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean and Pontic Greek populations by the Ottoman Turkish Government as "genocide," reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA.) "Twice in just one week, we have seen legislative bodies - the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States and the full Parliament in Sweden - take a strong stand against Turkey's threats against an honest affirmation of the Armenian Genocide," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We congratulate the Swedish Parliamentarians - particularly those who defied party politics and foreign intimidation - to send a clear message that genocide must be condemned whenever and wherever it occurs." The Swedish Parliament adopted the resolution, Motion 2008/09:U332, by a vote of 131 to 130, overcoming an earlier Foreign Affairs Committee decision voting down the measure. In addition to recognizing the Armenian, Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean and Pontic Greek genocides, the motion also calls on Swedish authorities to work with the United Nations, European Union and Turkey to secure international affirmation of this crime against humanity. Read. . . ANCA Challenges Administration Attack on Genocide Resolution Hachikian Voices Moral Outrage over Administration's Complicity in Turkey's Genocide Denials WASHINGTON, DC - Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Chairman Ken Hachikian gave voice to the profound moral outrage of Armenian American voters over the decision last week by President Obama, who had earlier this year abandoned his own pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide, to launch a White House drive to block proper Congressional commemoration of this crime against humanity. In a letter, sent this week to the White House, Hachikian noted: "Mr. President, in attempting to enforce Ankara's gag rule on U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide - both within your Administration and now in Congress - you have, very sadly, signaled to all the world that our silence on genocide can be bought in exchange for perceived geopolitical advantage or compromised under threat from a foreign power. Your policy is now fully complicit in Turkey's campaign of Genocide denial." Despite threats and intimidation from the Turkish Government and a last-minute Obama Administration attempt to block the measure, the House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.252) on March 4th, paving the way for a vote on this genocide-prevention legislation by the full U.S. House of Representatives. READ THE ANCA LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Search the web with www.goodsearch.com and money from Yahoo advertisers will go to the ANCA without you spending a dime. A penny per search! Use www.goodshop.com for online purchases from hundreds of popular sites and a percentage comes back to the ANCA. When you GoodSearch & GoodShop - Choose the ANCA ! Published by the Armenian National Committee of America 1711 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 Tel: (202) 775-1918, Fax: (202) 775-5648, E-mail: anca@anca.org, Web: www.anca.org