Possibility Of Adoption Of Armenian Genocide Claims By U.S. Senate Weakens

WASHINGTON D.C. - The possibility of adoption of Armenian genocide claims by the U.S. Senate weakens.
Armenian lobby in the U.S. tries to include genocide claims into the 2004 year budget bill of the U.S. Department of State with a motion of amendment.
As long as the discussions on the budget of the U.S. Department of State continues, the possibility of Armenian genocide claims' coming to agenda also continues. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitrage put pressure on those who prepared the Armenian bill not to present the motion for voting. If the motion does not come to agenda, the efforts of the Armenian lobby in the U.S. to make the U.S. Congress accept the so-called genocide claims will be unsuccessful once again.
Observers in Washington D.C. say that if the motion covering the claims does not come to agenda, the possibility of adoption of the claims will also lessen. New claims of Armenian lobby can come to agenda in fall at the earliest. The U.S. Congress will have summer recess in August.
The motion on Armenian claims asks commemoration of the 15th adoption anniversary of U.N. convention on genocide by the U.S. and it also includes the so-called Armenian genocide among the genocides which should not be forgotten.
(Öª-AÖ) 11.07.2003