Lobbying groups have been on alert this weekend as rumors abound that a controversial resolution strongly opposed by the White House to recognize the 1915 killings of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide will come to the House floor in the last days of the 111th Congress.
Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) resolution, which “calls upon the President to ensure that the foreign policy of the United States reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide documented in the United States record relating to the Armenian Genocide,” passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4 by slim margin, 23-22.
It wasn’t the first such resolution to try to make it through Congress, but the passage in committee angered Turkey to the point that it called its ambassador back to Ankara for a time.
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