Bloomberg.com: Bush Backs Turkey, Opposes Resolution on Massacres of Armenians- by Edward DeMarco and Roger Runningen
Bush Backs Turkey, Opposes Resolution on Massacres of Armenians- by Edward DeMarco and Roger Runningen
President George W. Bush expressed his opposition today to a congressional resolution on the World War I-era massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, during a conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A U.S. House resolution would ask the president to declare the killings of as many as 1.5 million Armenians nine decades ago a genocide. In today's phone call, ``Bush reiterated his opposition to this resolution, the passage of which would be harmful to U.S. relations with Turkey,'' National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in an e-mailed statement.
Note EU-Digest: This issue needs to be resolved for once and all by an independent commission under the auspices of the United Nations.
Labels: EU, Genocide, Turkey, United Nations, USA
