Umit Enginsoy, Washington George W. Bush’s pick for ambassador to Armenia stuck to the administration’s policy and declined to qualify World War-I era killings of Armenians in the Ottoman empire as “genocide,” despite intense questioning by a pro-Armenian senator during a confirmation hearing Thursday. Instead, career diplomat Marie Jovanovitch characterized the incidents as “mass killings, [...]
The Swedish Parliament in a June 12 vote rejected legislation aimed at recognizing Armenian genocide claims. The measure was rejected by a 245 to 37 vote, with nearly 70 percent of the Parliament voting against the legislation. The debate in the Parliament which led to the outcome of the vote focused on several points: The [...]
An official document in Russia’s State Military History Archives has been discovered by a researcher from Istanbul University and is reported to be a new piece of evidence on large scale atrocities committed by Armenians against Ottoman Muslims in 1915. The 65-page report was written by Russian Brigadier General Leonid Bolkhovinitov, who was stationed in [...]
Umit Enginsoy, Washington The United States for the first time publicly called on Armenia to formally recognize its border with Turkey as part of proposed measures for reconciliation between the two conflicting neighbors. “Armenia should acknowledge the existing border with Turkey and respond constructively to efforts that Turkey may make,” Dan Fried, assistant secretary of [...]
Umit Enginsoy, Washington The failure to appoint an ambassador to Armenia due to Senate opposition has forced the US administration to use a two-pronged ploy where the new ambassadorial nominee for Armenia can avoid delving into the dangerous ‘genocide’ issue by shifting the possible questions to her colleague destined to go to Turkey. About this [...]