Sen. Menendez Expesses "Real Concerns" about Turkey-Armenia Protocols Provisions

Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and outspoken advocate of international affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called provisions in the Turkey-Armenia protocols which would create a historical commission frankly absurd. The New Jersey legislator went on to state that I do not think that Armenia should be pressured into anything that is not in their national interests or in the long-term national interests of the United States.

Expanding on his concerns of the Protocols historical commission provision, Sen. Menendez called such an action an insult to the Armenian people. It is an insult to the memory of the victims. It is an insult to the top scholars who have clearly spoken on this issue and issued their unequivocal conclusions.

Sen. Menendez went on to restate the importance of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide is an irrefutable fact of history, explained the Senator. It is time that Turkey recognizes it and accepts it. It is time that the world acknowledges this fact of history and moves on towards a viable peace that honors the true history of the Armenian people.

Senator Menendez offered his remarks during the October 3rd, 2009, Armenian Cultural Association of America (ACAA) banquet in support of the efforts of the Armenian National Committee of America Eastern United States. For his decades of outspoken leadership and advocacy for Armenian American concerns and, most recently, his efforts to ensure a U.S. foreign policy which properly recognizes the Armenian Genocide, Sen. Menendez was awarded the 2009 Freedom Award. Previous Freedom Award recipients were former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans and Pulitzer Prize winning author Samantha Power.

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[simtaku]

Mr. Menendez thank you for being so supportive of the true facts.

[Haytime4justice]

Are they blind?????

Or simply stupid.

Do we simply forget our struggle for justice and recognition, our lands, our suffering.

Shame on Serj

[Bsrtosun]

Biased no doubt that you do not have peace, we are the Ottoman Empire we are the grandchildren with us to human suffering is sin

Differentiation of Armenian Christians in Turkey is Turkish people who live here know it

[resatk]

wtf! are you a historian m.f senator shit."British Documents on Ottoman Armenians", if you have gut to read it. what do you know about ottoman empire senator shit? nothing! go frak your own ass

[OzNoble]

HAHA this guy doesn't know any history. Look there are more "SERIOUS" scholars who've documented it as NOT. look at the archives, oh wait armenia doesn't have any to support it.

[TURKKNCL]

What you call Armenian genocide doesn't fit the genocide term of international law. That's why Armenia didn't get the case to the Hague court, the only instution that can make decisions about genocide issues.

[corey120120]

Ok well if you kill people for no GOOD reason its genocide.

[TURKKNCL]

I was talking about the time during ww2. This subject has nothing to do with your genocide lies.

One million lives? lol Obviously you started to believe the lie you created.

As written in Talat Paşa's own notebook 924.000 people were deported. How could be "one million dead"? And most of them stayed alive. Justin McCarthy says %80 of them were alive after the so-called genocide.

[corey120120]

Is 25000 soldiers close to 1 and a half million inoccent lives