US Senator submits bipartisan bill on Armenian Genocide recognition

U.S. Democrat Senator for New Jersey Bob Menendez submitted to the Congress a bipartisan bill on April 24, suggesting recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The bill suggests guaranteeing that the foreign policy of the USA will reect a relevant understanding towards human rights issues, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleanings, and genocides with the example of the Armenian Genocide documented by the USA.

The co-authors of the bill are senators Ted Cruz and Tom Udall. “102 years after the tragedy that took place in the Ottoman Empire, we must name it by its real name – genocide. I think that our continues incapability to do that step creates room in the modern world for barbarism.

Therefore, I call on my senator colleges to put an end to this shameful reality. This bill clearly defines that we will always respect the memory of those innocent Armenian men, women and children who have been killed or deported from their fatherland, and will always remember this as a lesson which will always counteract any form of crime against humanity,” Bob Menendez said.

ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian thanked senator Menendez and his colleges for submitting the bill. “It goes without saying that for Armenian-Turkish reconciliation it’s first of all necessary that Turkey recognizes facts and the consequences of the Armenian Genocide,” Hamparian said.