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405 ΝΑΙ και μόνο 11 ΟΧΙ,
η Βουλή των ΗΠΑ
ψήφισε υπέρ της αναγνώρισης
της Γενοκτονίας των Αρμενίων
Αποτελέσματα Ψηφίσματος
(resolution) 296 της Βουλής των ΗΠΑ, περί αναγνώρισης της Γενοκτονίας που
υπέστησαν οι Αρμένιοι:
Δημοκρατικοί: 226 Ναι 2 Παρών,
Ρεπουμπλικάνοι: 178 Ναι, 11 Όχι 1 Παρών,
Ανεξάρτητοι: 1 Ναι
Σύνολο : 405 ΝΑΙ 11 ΟΧΙ 3 ΠΑΡΩΝ
13 Δεν Ψήφισαν
ΠΗΓΗ: ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 30.10.2019.
ΠΗΓΗ: ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 30.10.2019.
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ για τις ΓΕΝΟΚΤΟΝΙΕΣ, ΕΔΩ.
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ για την ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑ, ΕΔΩ.
ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ περισσότερα ΠΕΡΙ ΓΕΝΟΚΤΟΝΙΩΝ στο βιβλίο
116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 296
Affirming the United States
record on the Armenian Genocide.
IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
April 8, 2019
Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Mr. Pallone, Mr. King of New
York, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Costa, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr.
Raskin, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Beyer, Mr.
DeFazio, Ms. Pingree, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Correa, Mr. Nunes, Mrs.
Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. Gabbard, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Espaillat, Ms.
Lee of California, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Sean
Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Meng, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr.
Courtney, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Takano, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Titus,
Mr. Pappas, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Ms. Sánchez, Mr. Spano, Mr. Neal, Mr.
Morelle, Mr. Cárdenas, Mrs. Trahan, Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Perlmutter,
Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Schneider, Mr.
Crenshaw, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Cox of California, Ms. Clark of
Massachusetts, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mr.
Sires, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Harder of California,
Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Speier, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms.
DeLauro, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Roybal-Allard,
and Ms. Shalala) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide.
Whereas the United States has a proud history of recognizing and
condemning the Armenian Genocide, the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the
Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, and providing relief to the survivors of the
campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs,
Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians;
Whereas the Honorable Henry Morgenthau, United States Ambassador to the
Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916, organized and led protests by officials of
many countries against what he described as the empire’s “campaign of race
extermination”, and was instructed on July 16, 1915, by United States Secretary
of State Robert Lansing that the “Department approves your procedure … to stop
Armenian persecution”;
Whereas President Woodrow Wilson encouraged the formation of the Near
East Relief, chartered by an Act of Congress, which raised $116,000,000 (over
$2,500,000,000 in 2019 dollars) between 1915 and 1930, and the Senate adopted
resolutions condemning these massacres;
Whereas Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide” in 1944, and who
was the earliest proponent of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of Genocide, invoked the Armenian case as a definitive example
of genocide in the 20th century;
Whereas, as displayed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
Adolf Hitler, on ordering his military commanders to attack Poland without
provocation in 1939, dismissed objections by saying “[w]ho, after all, speaks
today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”, setting the stage for the
Holocaust;
Whereas the United States has officially recognized the Armenian
Genocide, through the United States Government’s May 28, 1951, written
statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, through President Ronald
Reagan’s Proclamation No. 4838 on April 22, 1981, and by House Joint Resolution
148, adopted on April 8, 1975, and House Joint Resolution 247, adopted on
September 10, 1984; and
Whereas the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018
(Public Law 115–441) establishes that atrocities prevention represents a United
States national interest, and affirms that it is the policy of the United
States to pursue a United States Government-wide strategy to identify, prevent,
and respond to the risk of atrocities by “strengthening diplomatic response and
the effective use of foreign assistance to support appropriate transitional
justice measures, including criminal accountability, for past atrocities”: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that it
is the policy of the United States to -
(1) commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and
remembrance;
(2) reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United
States Government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide;
and
(3) encourage education and public understanding of the facts of the
Armenian Genocide, including the United States role in the humanitarian relief
effort, and the relevance of the Armenian Genocide to modern-day crimes against
humanity.
ΠΗΓΗ: ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 9.4.2019.
ΠΗΓΗ: ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 9.4.2019.
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