ARMENIA HAILS US CONGRESS PASSING TWO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia welcomed the endorsement by the US House International Relations Committee of two Armenian Genocide Resolutions and expressed hope that they will be passed by the full House of Representatives. "We welcome the decision by the House International Relations Committee and consider it to be yet another step towards international recognition of the Armenian Genocide," the spokesman for Armenia's Foreign Ministry, Hamlet Gasparyan said. "We hope that the issue will be put before the full House of Representatives and that it will discuss and adopt the resolutions," Gasparyan said. "I wouldn't like to link the resolutions adopted by third countries to Turkish-Armenian relations," he said. "As far as I know, the parliaments that have recognized the Armenian genocide urged Turkey in one way or another to normalize its relations with Armenia," Gasparyan remarked, reported RFE/RL.