US Senate Committee Adopts Resolution Condemning Armenian Genocide

For the first time in nearly 25 years, a US Senate committee adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution on April 10, reports the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). The resolution was adopted with a vote of 12 in favor and 5 opposed.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairperson Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who drafted the resolution, said:  "To me, to all men and women of good will, I would think there is a simple statement — genocide is genocide, and you cannot call it anything else but that and you need to have a recognition of that. Next year when we mark a century, a hundred years ago that the Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turkey, it seems to me that with most of the survivors gone — but with a few left — it is incredibly important for us to lead globally at this time."